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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:02:58 +0100 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Westeurop=E4ische_Normalzeit?=)
From:      Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Some questions concerning Thinkpad T20
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.4.43.0112282059230.564-100000@korben>
In-Reply-To: <20011228103945.A25465@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Brooks Davis wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 07:31:26PM +0100, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> >
> > *) can I get the "hotswap" feature of DVD drive and floppy drive to wor=
k
> > without having to reboot each time I want to change drives? (I get all
>
> There is some limited support for this in current via tha atacontrol
> command.  I'm not sure what the MFC status is.  I've had reasionable

I guess it isn't MFC'ed yet (I don't have an atacontrol command on
4.5-PRERELEASE.)

> > *) can I get the DVD drive to run in DMA mode? Currently it only runs
> > in PIO mode.
>
> add the following line to /boot/loader.conf:
>
> hw.ata.atapi_dma=3D1
>
> and reboot.  If the machine doesn't crash when you access the device
> you're good. ;-)

I'm good :-) Thanks for the tip, it works now in UDMA33.

regards,
le

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