Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:49:35 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: adriel <adriel@adriel.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA gone? Message-ID: <20010410134934.Z15938@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20010410153425.I5028@adriel.net>; from adriel@adriel.net on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 03:34:26PM -0500 References: <02db01c0c1b1$c1a0ffe0$0508a8c0@lofi.dyndns.org> <20010410123317.A73359@irrelevant.org> <200104101342.f3ADgsn15019@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010410153425.I5028@adriel.net>
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* adriel <adriel@adriel.net> [010410 13:34] wrote: > hw.ata.atapi_dma > set to 1 for DMA access 0 for PIO (default is PIO). > > root@misty:~# sysctl -w hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 > sysctl: oid 'hw.ata.atapi_dma' is read only > > what the hell? I need this, my drive takes forever to mount without it > it scrolls tons of errors before finally timing out and using pio. "what the hell?" ? didn't you read that Bruce told you? > Quoting Bruce A. Mah (bmah@FreeBSD.ORG): > > > > And it's also mentioned in RELNOTES.TXT: > > > > # To provide more flexible configuration, the various options for the > > # ata(4) driver are now boot loader tunables, rather than kernel > > # configure-time options. You must set it from the loader. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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