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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:59:47 +0300
From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com>
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Subject: Is there still sufficient reason for hw.ata.atapi_dma being 0 by
 default?
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Since high-speed CD-RW/DVD-RW recorders (32x - 52x) are commodity now 
IMO it makes sense to review hw.ata.atapi_dma default of 0, since 
apparently PIO mode can't support necessary sustained data transfer 
rates anymore. For example I had had problems burning RWs on 16-24x with 
several drives in PIO mode, which gone when I've switched to DMA.

I easily imagine newbies who make a conclusion that "FreeBSD sucks" 
after installing FreeBSD and finding that they can't burn CDs, while 
other operating system do it without any problems.

-Maxim