From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 3 12:54:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E5E15606 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 12:53:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA87665; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 21:53:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199903032053.VAA87665@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: New driver and ATAPI DMA? In-Reply-To: from Bob K at "Mar 3, 1999 10:19:57 am" To: melange@yip.org (Bob K) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 21:53:31 +0100 (CET) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Bob K wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Lee Cremeans wrote: > > > Will this new ATA driver finally support DMA correctly on ATAPI devices (as > > opposed to pure ATA disk devices)? This is a feature that could really come > > in handy for me (as well as a reason to migrate back to -current from 3.1 :) > > Which brings up a question I've been wondering for a bit. Will it be > backported to 3.1-stable, or will there be patches? I'd be willing to > test 'em... I think you can take the /sys/dev/ata dir and copy it verbatim to 3.1. Remember to add the files in /sys/i386/conf/files.i386 too. The only problem is the devstat calls, just save of the last parameter... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message