From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 24 12: 0:34 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8145937B401 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:00:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from aeimail.aei.ca (aeimail.aei.ca [206.123.6.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FCFD43FBF for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:00:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx) Received: from shall.anarcat.ath.cx (cjmbix8tlhvnucbp@dsl-133-253.aei.ca [66.36.133.253]) by aeimail.aei.ca (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id h2OJxwN10631; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:59:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from lenny.anarcat.ath.cx (lenny.anarcat.ath.cx [192.168.0.4]) by shall.anarcat.ath.cx (Postfix) with SMTP id 57576242; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:59:57 -0500 (EST) Received: by lenny.anarcat.ath.cx (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:59:58 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:59:58 -0500 From: The Anarcat To: Kevin Oberman Cc: Don , Craig Reyenga , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Broken DMA devices Message-ID: <20030324195958.GB681@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx> Mail-Followup-To: Kevin Oberman , Don , Craig Reyenga , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20030324194330.GA681@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx> <20030324195207.136F65D07@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MW5yreqqjyrRcusr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030324195207.136F65D07@ptavv.es.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-34.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --MW5yreqqjyrRcusr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon Mar 24, 2003 at 11:52:07AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > PS: what's the proper way to enable ATAPI DMA in the loader.conf file? > > I don't see any flag WRT that there.. I'm tempted to add: > >=20 > > set hw.ata.atapi_cam=3D3D1 > >=20 > > anywhere there... >=20 > Close. Add: > hw.ata.atapi_dma=3D"1" # Run the CD-ROM/DVD in DMA mode > to /boot/loader.conf. >=20 > This should be in almost EVERY /boot/loader.conf. The default is 0 (PIO) > because DMA is broken on at least a few early CD readers, but it is > very rare to have it fail. (I've never seen it.) Can't the ata drivers detect that condition or recognize the set of drives that are broken instead of penalizing everyone else? A. --=20 Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content=20 in the United States today. - C. Edwin Baker http://www.ad-mad.co.uk/quotes/freespeech.htm --MW5yreqqjyrRcusr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+f2O+ttcWHAnWiGcRAplaAJ0UnONd1E3MktSP8sICBtUnqebDTQCggg8q 1ORlvOfVEZ6K8RgflGK7N+E= =i7YF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MW5yreqqjyrRcusr-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message