From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 7 8:26:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C2BA37B417 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:26:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from sobek.lan ([62.252.12.253]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20020107162603.JOVQ10326.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.lan>; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:26:03 +0000 Received: (from greid@localhost) by sobek.lan (8.11.5/8.11.5) id g07GPqh74342; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:25:52 GMT (envelope-from greid@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: sobek.lan: greid set sender to greid@FreeBSD.org using -f Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:25:52 +0000 From: George Reid To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: burncd blank/erase/fixate seize all ATA I/O Message-ID: <20020107162552.A74309@FreeBSD.org> References: <008322859130712FE7@mail7.nc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <008322859130712FE7@mail7.nc.rr.com>; from bts@babbleon.org on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:58:40AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:58:40AM -0500, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > Am I setting myself up for trouble using this? Anybody know why > > hw.ata.ata_dma: 1 > > is the default but the atapi_dma defaults to 0? DMA on ATAPI devices was/is notoriously unreliable. -- George C A Reid Tel: (08701) 200870 Ext. 26654 FreeBSD Committer/Developer greid@FreeBSD.org Oriel College, Oxford University george.reid@oriel.ox.ac.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message