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From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>
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Subject: Re: failure to enable atapi dma
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> From:          Joshua Lokken <joloxbox@attbi.com>
> Subject:       failure to enable atapi dma
> Date:          Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:41:16 -0700

> The HDD (since it is ATA100 compliant, and the only device on the bus)  is 
> running UDMA100 no problem.  I would like to playback DVDs, etc. and I've 
> tried putting the following entry in sysctl.conf:
> 
> hw.ata.atapi_dma=1
> 
> however, the atapi drives still show PIO4 mode.  

Try putting it in /boot/loader.conf instead. This is a "read only" 
sysctl so it needs to be set before loading the kernel (if my 
memories from lurking on this list are correct).

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