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From: "Bjoern Koenig" <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: i386/71761: disk write operations too slow (probably DMA
	problems with ICH2)
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The following reply was made to PR i386/71761; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Bjoern Koenig" <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: i386/71761: disk write operations too slow (probably DMA problems with ICH2)
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 03:54:41 +0200

 Looks like an ICH2-specific bug which appeared first since atapi_dma became
 "1" by default.
 
 Either set hw.ata.atapi_dma="0" in /boot/loader.conf or an appropriate
 atacontrol command line in /etc/rc.early to set mode UDMA5 to hard disk
 device.