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Date:      Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:43:37 -0700
From:      Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com>
To:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?B?U8O4cmVuIFNjaG1pZHQ=?= <sos@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: ATA patch for RELENG_6 ... a patch looking for a good home
Message-ID:  <4889E699.3050606@miralink.com>
In-Reply-To: <4889A712.7090204@yandex.ru>
References:  <4839F473.6070109@miralink.com> <4889A415.1060309@yandex.ru> <4889A712.7090204@yandex.ru>

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Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
>> What you think about attached patch?
>> It can resolve your problem and shouldn't break anything.
>> With this patch you can set mode in /boot/device.hints, for
>> example:
>> hint.ad.0.mode="UDMA33"
>> hint.ad.1.mode="UDMA100"
>>
>> These limits work only on boot stage, after boot completed you can
>> change mode via atacontrol.
>
My issue was that the boot device itself was the flash module from 
Transcend.  Setting the speed via atacontrol after the system booted was 
not preferred as the root device _was_ the Transcend.  Does that make sense?
> Also, this is the same patch, but it doesn't allow override maximum
> mode in device.hints. I don't know which patch is preferable, I think
> second one.
>
I'll try both and get back to you.


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