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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>,
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Subject: Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 06:25:52AM -0700, Jamie Bowden wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Matthias Andree wrote:
>=20
> :Which leaves you with the recommendation:
> :
> :When running FreeBSD 4.6, put these lines in your /boot/loader.conf:
>=20
> 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:
>=20
> This is from ATA(4):
>=20
>      To see the devices' current access modes, use the command line:
>=20
>            sysctl hw.atamodes
>=20
>      which results in the modes of the devices being displayed as a string
>      like this:
>=20
>            hw.atamodes: dma,pio,---,pio,dma,---,dma,---, (--- =3D no devi=
ce)
>=20
> And from the command line:
>=20
> 9:20am ghast  /home/jamie %runas sysctl hw.atamodes
> sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.atamodes'
>=20
> So something isn't right here.

The manpage is out of date, ignore that bit until it's deleted.

-- Brooks

--=20
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