From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 25 8:11:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F4A137B43C for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 08:11:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khera@kcilink.com) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [216.194.193.106]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49E952E45E for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:11:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3PFBQI79983; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:11:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera@kcilink.com) X-Authentication-Warning: onceler.kciLink.com: khera set sender to khera@kcilink.com using -f To: stable@freebsd.org Newsgroups: ml.freebsd.stable Subject: Re: What's happened with kernel option ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA? References: <878zkpxi81.fsf@juil.domain> From: Vivek Khera Date: 25 Apr 2001 11:11:25 -0400 Message-ID: Organization: Khera Communications, Inc., Rockville, MD Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) In-Reply-To: <878zkpxi81.fsf@juil.domain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Posted-To: ml.freebsd.stable Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to ml.freebsd.stable as well. >>>>> "IM" == Ilya Martynov writes: IM> I'm trying to upgrade to 4.3-STABLE and I've found that my kernel IM> doesn't want to build because its config has wrong option IM> ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA. Have been this option removed in 4.3? I did not IM> found anything related neither in /usr/src/UPDATING, in release notes IM> or in mailist search results. It should have come up in the mailing list search, but it *really* shold be in the UPDATING file since it is an incompatible change. What you need to do is this: echo 'hw.ata.atapi_dma="1"' >> /boot/loader.conf and reboot. Compare the /var/run/dmesg.boot output of before and after to see that your ATAPI devices are using DMA rather than PIO. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message