Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:14:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> To: Johny Mattsson <lonewolf-freebsd@earthmagic.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "official" way of changing ATA modes on boot? Message-ID: <200310131014.h9DAEFue010183@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <3F8A72DD.5020104@earthmagic.org>
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It seems Johny Mattsson wrote: > Hi all, > > Quick question: Is there an "official" way of changing ATA modes on > boot/startup? I grepped my /etc/rc.d (5.1-R) for 'atacontrol' and did a > quick search of the archives, but both came up empty, so I'm guessing > there isn't. > > I'm quite happy to write up an rc script for it, but I figured I'd > double check so I don't write it for nothing. :) > > The reason I'm asking is that I have a couple of IDE CDROM drives that I > want to enable DMA on (yes, they grok DMA). You can control the ATA driver boot behavior in loader.conf with these: hw.ata.ata_dma="1" hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" hw.ata.wc="1" -Søren
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