From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 27 06:55:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A4E37B401 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 06:55:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp0.euronet.nl (smtp0.euronet.nl [194.134.35.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46D9F43FAF for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 06:55:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fierman@puscii.nl) Received: from [10.0.0.1] (ut-c-1974.mxs.adsl.euronet.nl [212.129.153.116]) by smtp0.euronet.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E096624653 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 15:55:24 +0200 (MEST) From: Fierman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <00cd01c35352$752839a0$3501a8c0@pro.sk> References: <20030726084102.45232.qmail@web41904.mail.yahoo.com> <00cd01c35352$752839a0$3501a8c0@pro.sk> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: puscii Message-Id: <1059321593.66408.2.camel@amiga.puscii> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 27 Jul 2003 15:59:53 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: DVD/CD-RW not recognized (was: Re:) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: fierman@puscii.nl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:55:32 -0000 On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 08:46, Peter Rosa wrote: > It's because (as I know from some old articles) if you connect > one device with high-speed, and second with lower speed > onto the same cable, they will BOTH use the lower speed. > And it may be problematic for some new HDD, to be > as slow as CD is (using PIO, or UDMA-33) (although > they all say about standards conformity etc.). > > Peter Rosa > sounds plausible, but then again, I DID try : - hw.ata.atapi_dma to "0" or "1" in /boot/loader.conf - hw.ata.ata_dma to "0" or "1" in /boot/loader.conf the HDD (a 2 year old 40 GB maxtor) works fine in pio mode.. It would be great if the ATA driver author could find some time/energy to look into this.. cheers, Fierman