From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 8 17:54:51 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F206116A4CE for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 17:54:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B04AE43D46 for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 17:54:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j38Hspd1084435; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:54:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j38Hsomt084434; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:54:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:54:50 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: "O. Hartmann" Message-ID: <20050408175450.GF81280@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <425407B7.3080306@mail.uni-mainz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <425407B7.3080306@mail.uni-mainz.de> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE: DVD in PIO mode? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 17:54:52 -0000 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)