From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 25 12: 4:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E4237B401 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:04:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from aeimail.aei.ca (aeimail.aei.ca [206.123.6.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46A4D43FAF for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:04:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx) Received: from shall.anarcat.ath.cx (04m1e6iwmtyt43iy@dsl-133-253.aei.ca [66.36.133.253]) by aeimail.aei.ca (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id h2PK4gt15187; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:04:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from lenny.anarcat.ath.cx (lenny.anarcat.ath.cx [192.168.0.4]) by shall.anarcat.ath.cx (Postfix) with SMTP id 1641B242; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:04:41 -0500 (EST) Received: by lenny.anarcat.ath.cx (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:04:43 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:04:43 -0500 From: The Anarcat To: Soeren Schmidt Cc: Kevin Oberman , Don , Craig Reyenga , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken DMA devices Message-ID: <20030325200443.GA717@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx> Mail-Followup-To: Soeren Schmidt , Kevin Oberman , Don , Craig Reyenga , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030325161253.GA600@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx> <200303251728.h2PHSdWt074651@spider.deepcore.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303251728.h2PHSdWt074651@spider.deepcore.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-36.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue Mar 25, 2003 at 06:28:38PM +0100, Soeren Schmidt wrote: > It seems The Anarcat wrote: > >=20 > > Thanks for those precisions... This could be a FAQ, pertaining also to > > how to enable it. > >=20 > > So it's enabled system-wide? Can't it be done at the bus or device > > level? >=20 > You can set the transfer mode of any ATA/ATAPI device with atacontrol... This is great. I should have looked at that earlier. So it looks like the sysctl, boot loader-time setting isn't really useful since I can set the modes when the kernel is booted, contrarly to the sysctl setting. And it still solves the skipping MP3 problem I had. Thanks for those precisions and that atacontrol pearl, Soeren. :) A. --=20 Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content=20 in the United States today. - C. Edwin Baker http://www.ad-mad.co.uk/quotes/freespeech.htm --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+gLZattcWHAnWiGcRAg7YAKCgxPlPEHWgaui1QJhUK1hHJl2txACcDE6D mrDFLCfDt7OMrkCFMNf36u8= =NkNq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message