From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 29 22:25:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (fw-rl0.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DE5137B71D; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 22:25:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA80708; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:25:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <200103300625.IAA80708@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: wd & ata In-Reply-To: from BSD Blood at "Mar 30, 2001 01:37:04 am" To: bsdblood@hotmail.com (BSD Blood) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:25:32 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems BSD Blood wrote: > Hello. > I'm using FreeBSD 4.1. My kernel contains the ata driver for the IDE > controllers. I understand that the ata driver has replaced the wd driver. My > question is:- > > 1. Are there any / Do I need to use certain flags to enable LBA, DMA, etc. > features like for the wd driver? Or is this done automatically by the ata > driver? The ATA driver tries to use the highest performance level your ATA hardware claims to support. ATAPI device DMA has to be explicitly enabled since alot of those fail, man ata.4. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message