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Date:      Mon, 30 Apr 2001 03:42:27 -0400
From:      "William Wong" <willwong@samurai.com>
To:        "Martin Hasenbein" <mh-freebsd-questions@space.Net>, "Michael Radzewitz" <Michael.Radzewitz@freenet-ag.de>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Enable DMA
Message-ID:  <005e01c0d149$1b2066e0$0300a8c0@anime.ca>
References:  <E5B3956864905342AE057EAAE922F2D301C976@staffbox> <20010430093859.B40233@Space.Net>

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In 4.3-RELEASE it's now controlled via a sysctl variable.  Specifically:
hw.ata.ata_dma

I'm assuming it's autodetected since mine is set to 1 without me
specifically enabling it.

- Will

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Hasenbein" <mh-freebsd-questions@space.Net>
To: "Michael Radzewitz" <Michael.Radzewitz@freenet-ag.de>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 3:38 AM
Subject: Re: Enable DMA


> Michael Radzewitz (Michael.Radzewitz@freenet-ag.de) wrote:
> % Hello,
> % is there a possiblity to enable the DMA-Access or is
> % it enabled by default.
> %
> % Under Linux i have used the program: hdparm to do this
> %
> % Thanks in advance Michael
> %
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>
> Hi Michael,
>
> I think the the following kernel-option should do this;
> (or am I wrong??)
>
> # ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA: enable DMA on ATAPI device, since many ATAPI
devices
> #                       claim to support DMA but doesn't actually work,
this
> #                       is not enabled as default.
>
> options         ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA
>
> \martin
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