Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:11:41 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White) Cc: havoc@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl (Theo van Klaveren), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with the ATA-driver Message-ID: <199912211711.SAA06606@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912210848170.5973-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "Dec 21, 1999 08:53:44 am"
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It seems Doug White wrote: > > > > It probably because I relaxed the requirements for doing WDMA on disks > > that doesn't bother to tell whihc verson of the ATA spec they conform to. > > I think your case is the more seldom one, but I'm this close to > > blacklisting all WD/Maxtor drives, that would make life alot easier... > > If you end up doing this, can you have the driver print a line letting > people know this is intentional? i.e., > > ad0: DMA disabled: This drive does not properly support DMA mode. > ad0: To force DMA for this drive (at your own risk) set flags 0xXX. Sure, but belive me, this is _the_ last thing I want to do, but its starting to look as if its the only possibility... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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