Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 12:30:23 +0200 (EET) From: Bernie <Bernie_X@myrealbox.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@ptavv.es.net> Cc: Tim DeBoer <deboert@cletus.cornhusker.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Enabling DMA Access Message-ID: <20020112122837.W13242-100000@BLAST>
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On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:28:23 +0000 (GMT) > > From: Tim DeBoer <deboert@cletus.cornhusker.net> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Hi Everyone, > > I've been playing with DVD on my FBSD box, but it looks lik hell. > > The standard recomendation is to enable DMA access on ym drives, so I've > > been digging through various kern files I've found on the web. > > They all seem to call for > > > > options ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA # Enable DMA on ATAPI devices > > > > The problem is, I can't recompile if I add that to my kern. > > The error message reads unknown option "ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA" > > > > Am I missing a step here? Acutally I know I am, I just don't know what it > > is. > > This is obsolete. The new ata driver now sets this with a sysctl. > > Add: > hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" # Run the CD-ROM/DVD in DMA mode > to /boot/loader.conf. > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > Can the same be done for the an IDE HD? do you know anywhere i can find more about it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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