Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 14:57:43 +0200 From: "Julian Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@freebsd.org> Cc: phoemix@harmless.hu, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ata mode at startup Message-ID: <200805241257.m4OCvh5q004204@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Fri, 23 May 2008 17:44:16 %2B0200." <A289B32D-AA0C-4EB9-9E63-7587ED33E82E@freebsd.org>
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> It would also be impossible to maintain, I'm suprised. I'd been thinking of an analogy to USB quirk table, (I sent send-pr's for entries for that), but you know ATA code, I don't. > thats why the current knobs > are there, if DMA fails you boot in "safe" mode ie PIO and then you > can experiment to your hearts content what your flakey HW can take. Good point. ( I've wished before though, we'd thought of a more intuitive name for "Safe", though not sure what it might be.) Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com Mail just Ascii plain text. HTML & Base64 text are spam.
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