From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 29 17:50:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB2037B71F for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:50:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.42]) by mail.enteract.com (8.11.1/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2U1oVN23026; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:50:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:50:30 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com To: BSD Blood Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wd & ata In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, BSD Blood wrote: :Hello. : I'm using FreeBSD 4.1. My kernel contains the ata driver for the IDE :controllers. I understand that the ata driver has replaced the wd driver. My :question is:- : :1. Are there any / Do I need to use certain flags to enable LBA, DMA, etc. :features like for the wd driver? Or is this done automatically by the ata :driver? No, you don't need to do anything. The ata driver will do the fastest rate that the drive, controller, and cable support. You should build entries in /dev for ad?, and update your /etc/fstab to use tehm, if you ahve't done so already. Also, this is not really a -hackers question. It belongs in -questions. And please don't cross post between the lists. -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message