From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 3 7:37: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from darwin.lastamericanempire.com (dsl081-101-239.den1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.101.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22B3A37B41A for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 07:37:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by darwin.lastamericanempire.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EF8C21D10D; Fri, 3 May 2002 08:37:08 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 08:37:08 -0600 From: Zach Thompson To: Nick Lozinsky Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DMA and FreeBSD4.5-STABLE Message-ID: <20020503083708.A4744@darwin.lastamericanempire.com> References: <000b01c1f2ac$6cfb9bd0$145c1f41@bogart> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <000b01c1f2ac$6cfb9bd0$145c1f41@bogart>; from nl3481@wi.rr.com on Fri, May 03, 2002 at 09:11:27AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Nick Lozinsky [2002-05-03 08:11]: > Hi, > > I noticed that some versions before 4.5-STABLE had the DMA enable option in > the kernel config file; 4.5-STABLE now, doesnt? Its not there, so I try the > option from the previous versions, and the config command fives me an error. > Does that mean it's a different option or is DMA enabled by default in > 4.5-STABLE? > Not an option anymore. Just remove the line and throw any changes you need from the defaults in loader.conf. man ata: The following tunables are setable from the loader: hw.ata.ata_dma set to 1 for DMA access, 0 for PIO (default is DMA). hw.ata.atapi_dma set to 1 for DMA access, 0 for PIO (default is PIO). Zach Thompson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message