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Date:      Mon, 09 Dec 2002 11:55:43 +0200
From:      Vadim Belman <voland@lflat.org>
To:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ATACD issues slowly coming back...
Message-ID:  <3DF4689F.5040702@lflat.org>
In-Reply-To: <200212061435.45583.cbiffle@safety.net>
References:  <200212061435.45583.cbiffle@safety.net> <20021208222838.GA3422@fourtytwo.gamesoc> <200212081943.48765.cbiffle@safety.net> <20021209094638.GA4938@fourtytwo.gamesoc>

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Bruce Cran wrote:

> Your CD drive should indeed support UDMA33 - my DVD drive supports
> UDMA33, and my CDRW supports multi-word DMA, even though my BIOS only
> ever configures it for PIO4, and my DVD for UDMA33.   FreeBSD only ever
> configures them for PIO during bootup, but, using the atacontrol
> program, it configures them both for maximum speed, even knowing they
> _can_ only do UDMA33,WDMA2.

	If you have a look at sysctl hw.ata tree, it'll give you the clue on 
how to overcome this behaviuor. In simple words, what you need is to poot

hw.ata.atapi_dma=1

	in your /boot/loader.conf and have the nirvana of automatic DMA 
detection...

-- 
/Voland			Vadim Belman
			http://www.lflat.org
			http://www.lflat.net


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