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Date:      Mon, 15 May 2006 12:32:42 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>
To:        "Angka H. K." <harikurniawan@gmail.com>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DMA no active on HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD
Message-ID:  <20060515122630.P67961@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>
In-Reply-To: <4c40c4e70605142319h3838502anc8fa841bdbd14bf7@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4c40c4e70605130152s52fb3188nd847a0b8b0d46972@mail.gmail.com> <86wtcq6psi.fsf@xps.des.no> <4c40c4e70605130659q4c486a64u188177bd5eb804f5@mail.gmail.com> <86hd3u6lbc.fsf@xps.des.no> <4c40c4e70605130744o5d0fd566n6a219ade5924561d@mail.gmail.com> <86d5ei6k3x.fsf@xps.des.no> <4c40c4e70605130835v46296d6akcc0bdd44bec49d08@mail.gmail.com> <20060513190519.P16055@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <4c40c4e70605130927p13c45284k59f151a6d1657566@mail.gmail.com> <20060513193327.G16055@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <4c40c4e70605142319h3838502anc8fa841bdbd14bf7@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello!

On Mon, 15 May 2006, Angka H. K. wrote:
> The output is the same and my drive is set to WMDA2. It's run faster then
> PIO4.

  OK, nice to know.

> I was trying to verify what I have done, by reinstalling Linux on my 
> mechine. The result : On Linux my drive is using DMA (not UDMA or WDMA) and 
------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  This is either mwDMA or UDMA - hardware is only capable doing one of these
modes (besides PIO). Linux just doesn't tell you which kind of *DMA it's 
using.

> run smoother when
> playing DVD. I use MPlayer from CVS and compile for FreeBSD and Linux. I use
> fedora on it with xorg 7 build-in while FreeBSD using xorg 7 from CVS. The
> exception for this is Fedora using DRI and FBSD 7 not using DRI.

  DRI can really make a big difference!


Sincerely, Dmitry
-- 
Atlantis ISP, System Administrator
e-mail:  dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua
nic-hdl: LYNX-RIPE



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