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Date:      Sat, 1 Apr 2000 00:49:01 -0500
From:      Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net>
To:        Grigoriy Strokin <grg@philol.msu.ru>
Cc:        Jason Garman <jgarman@wedgie.org>, Thomas K?llmann <koellmann@gmx.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New kernel with its ATA drivers damages the filesystem
Message-ID:  <20000401004901.B6904@evil.2y.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000401013959.A48268@isabase.philol.msu.ru>; from grg@philol.msu.ru on Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 04:41:22PM -0500
References:  <20000331022130.A4045@isabase.philol.msu.ru> <20000331142357.A1291@home.net> <20000331163527.B24581@got.wedgie.org> <20000401013959.A48268@isabase.philol.msu.ru>

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Grigoriy Strokin had the audacity to say:
> Interestingly, commenting out this option doesn't affect the mode for my CD-ROM
> either.
> 
>    sysctl reports
>      hw.atamodes: dma,---,dma,---,
> 
> First dma is for ad0, second for acd0.
> 
> And dmesg reports using UDMA-33 for CDROM, too.
> 
> acd0: CDROM <FX4010M> at ata1-master using UDMA33
> 

I beleive it only applies to Multi-Word DMA, or MWDMA for short, the predecessor
to UDMA. Although, I could be wrong, but you had two choices back then. They
were mwdma and PIO basically. Each had it's pro's and con's. Now you can do
UDMA, which is drastically different from MWDMA, and should be considered a
different operating mode.

--cokane


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