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Date:      Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:31:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, ([?X-UNKNOWN?]) <sos@FreeBSD.org>, mjacob@feral.com, (Mike Smith) <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, (Peter Wemm) <peter@netplex.com.au>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-disk.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010130163115.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200101300736.IAA47126@freebsd.dk>

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On 30-Jan-01 Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Peter Wemm wrote:
>> 
>> I had a sysctl to turn it on/off globally for all drives.  I never got
>> around
>> to making it per-drive.
>> 
>> A stale, very old version is at:
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/wce.diff
>> 
>> Replicating the hw.atamodes dma/pio thing is probably the ticket though.
> 
> And that is exactly what I have in the works for other things, and as
> I said I'll add WCE to it, but in the meantime I think an option
> will do just fine...

Actually, having dynaic per-device sysctls such as:

hw.ata.ad0.wce=1
hw.ata.ad0.mode=dma
hw.ata.acd1.mode=pio
...
etc.

would be nice.

> -Søren

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