Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:18:18 +0100 From: Mark Cullen <mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: WDMA mode won't enable? Old machine... Message-ID: <4175849A.5080606@dsl.pipex.com>
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I have a rather old machine acting as a home server. According to dmesg it has a: -- atapci0: <Intel PIIX WDMA2 controller> port 0xffa0-0xffaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 7.1 on pci0 -- However, both hard disks attached are running in PIO mode. -- ad0: 4103MB <ST34321A> [8894/15/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO ad2: 6194MB <IBM-DADA-26480> [13424/15/63] at ata1-master BIOSPIO -- I tried running the following, but as you can see the end result is that they are still running BIOSPIO. -- (root|bone)/home/mrboo# atacontrol mode 0 WDMA2 WDMA2 Master = BIOSPIO Slave = BIOSPIO -- Any suggestions as to how I might enable some sort of DMA on these drives? Since the machine is rather slow (133MHz) and it's currently using polled IO I am sure it will likely benefit me, even if it isn't quite UDMA :) -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
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