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To: "uwi mAn" <uwiman3k@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: hw.ata.tags problem 
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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:22:28 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@ptavv.es.net>
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> From: "uwi mAn" <uwiman3k@hotmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:15:06 -0500
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I got an IBM DPTA HDD and would like to try this SCSI tagging feature.
> As always, I boot with -s and type:
> sysctl hw.ata.tags=1 (default is set to zero)
> sysctl: oid 'hw.ata.tags' is read only

It's too late to set it after booting. ata sysctls must be set before
boot by either adding them to /boot/loader.conf or entering them at
the boot prompt BEFORE entering a boot command.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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