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Date:      Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:29:43 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        tlambert2@mindspring.com
Cc:        Jonathan Smith <jonsmith@dragonstar.dhs.org>, John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UDMA interfering with install
Message-ID:  <200106140929.f5E9ThW87356@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <3B28821F.9BF665C6@mindspring.com> "from Terry Lambert at Jun 14, 2001 02:21:35 am"

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It seems Terry Lambert wrote:
> "Søren Schmidt" wrote:
> > > This won't work.
> > >
> > > Someone was having the same problem the other day, and
> > > I suggested the same soloution, but after probe, the
> > > damn driver enabled UDMA at attach time anyway.
> > 
> > Just set hw.ata.ata_dma="0" in /boot/loader.conf and it
> > will not enabled DMA..
> > 
> > > So we removed it from the kernel config... and the damn
> > > thing enabled it again.
> > 
> > There is nothing in the config file that affects DMA...
> 
> This was a 4.3 system -- things seem to have changed in
> the source tree since then.

Nope.

> In 4.3, it's not possible to disable DMA, because it gets
> reenabled in many places (atapi.c, etc.).

there is no atapi.c...

> This was off-topic for -current, unless the original
> poster was running 4.3-RELEASE or a RELENG_4_3_0_RELEASE...
> 
> Sorry for the confusion.

I think you are confused :)

-Søren

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