Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:48:20 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> Cc: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Soeren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release Message-ID: <20020619094820.B29725@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10206190615450.69260-100000@moo.sysabend.org>; from ragnar@sysabend.org on Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 06:25:52AM -0700 References: <m3n0tsr4lb.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10206190615450.69260-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 06:25:52AM -0700, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Matthias Andree wrote: > > :Which leaves you with the recommendation: > : > :When running FreeBSD 4.6, put these lines in your /boot/loader.conf: > > Use /boot/loader.conf.local instead, according to the docs, which works > fine. In general you should use /boot/loader.conf, it's like rc.conf. > BTW: > > This is from ATA(4): > > To see the devices' current access modes, use the command line: > > sysctl hw.atamodes > > which results in the modes of the devices being displayed as a string > like this: > > hw.atamodes: dma,pio,---,pio,dma,---,dma,---, (--- = no device) > > And from the command line: > > 9:20am ghast /home/jamie %runas sysctl hw.atamodes > sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.atamodes' > > So something isn't right here. The manpage is out of date, ignore that bit until it's deleted. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9ELXTXY6L6fI4GtQRAhRCAJ46hkJawmCHk0YFG7at35SM5tI2cgCfWjmT BY4f9MM/fZ2fnwmwq96icAk= =ZZFP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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