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From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
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Subject: Re: EIDE drive performance improvements
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> For certain issues (e.g., I have an ata66 DVD drive that was
> "automatically" set to pio mode), you may want to look at man pages and
> google this list for sysctl and ata.

Yeah, atapi devices automatically use pio mode unless you put this in
/boot/loader.conf

hw.ata.atapi_dma=1

Ken


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