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Date:      Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:54:50 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE: DVD in PIO mode?
Message-ID:  <20050408175450.GF81280@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <425407B7.3080306@mail.uni-mainz.de>
References:  <425407B7.3080306@mail.uni-mainz.de>

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On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 06:00:55PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Hello.
> After I did a cvsupdate today and recompiled world/kernel, I realized
> that DVD/CDROM now is by default in PIO mode 4. I have to bring them
> back to DMA explicitely by setting hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" in
> /boot/loader.conf.local.

This is correct for RELENG_5 (ie, about to become 5.4-RELEASE) on
Sparc64, and all architectures IIRC.  There are too many problematic
ATAPI CD/DVD drives out there.  Defaulting to ATAPI DMA makes FreeBSD
uninstalable on them with knowing the magic invocation.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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