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Subject: Re: Call for testers: Apple ATA DMA
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Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Nathan,
>
> Do you have any news regarding the patch in question? I hope you did 
> not give up, the lack of ATA DMA support is IMHO probably the biggest 
> issue for the FreeBSD on PowerMacs now. The hardware is very 
> attractive for SOHO applications, so that having this feature is 
> important.
Right now, modes up to WDMA2 work. The UDMA modes cause hangs for 
reasons not entirely clear. I'm investigating it, but am in the 
Netherlands at the moment and it will have to wait until I get back.
-Nathan