From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 10 13:34:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fluffy.adriel.net (fluffy.adriel.net [216.141.4.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A08C637B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:34:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adriel@fluffy.adriel.net) Received: (from adriel@localhost) by fluffy.adriel.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f3AKYQo91056 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:34:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from adriel) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:34:26 -0500 From: adriel To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA gone? Message-ID: <20010410153425.I5028@adriel.net> References: <02db01c0c1b1$c1a0ffe0$0508a8c0@lofi.dyndns.org> <20010410123317.A73359@irrelevant.org> <200104101342.f3ADgsn15019@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200104101342.f3ADgsn15019@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 06:42:54AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hw.ata.atapi_dma set to 1 for DMA access 0 for PIO (default is PIO). root@misty:~# sysctl -w hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 sysctl: oid 'hw.ata.atapi_dma' is read only what the hell? I need this, my drive takes forever to mount without it it scrolls tons of errors before finally timing out and using pio. Quoting Bruce A. Mah (bmah@FreeBSD.ORG): > If memory serves me right, simond@irrelevant.org wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:31:16PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > I am afraid this is a rather dumb question but where did option > > > ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA go? I am in the process of upgrading a > > > 4.2-Release box to the latest stable version and 'make buildkernel' > > > complained about that option not being recognised - I have read > > > /usr/src/UPDATING but couldn't find any information about this - is > > > there some kind of CHANGES documentation for the kernel that I > > > overlooked? > > > > It seems that they've been moved, the new ata(4) explains how to set them > > (ie from the loader) > > And it's also mentioned in RELNOTES.TXT: > > # To provide more flexible configuration, the various options for the > # ata(4) driver are now boot loader tunables, rather than kernel > # configure-time options. > > Bruce. > > -- ---------------------------------------------------- Adriel Ickler Network Administrator - adriel@jlms.com Self Trading Securities - Voice: 512-263-2769 www.selftrading.com - Fax: 512-263-2141 ---------------------------------------------------- Remember: Silly is a state of Mind, Stupid is a way of Life. -- Dave Butler To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message