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Date:      Fri, 16 Jan 2004 19:31:17 +0100 (CET)
From:      "Roman Kennke" <roman@interview-machine.com>
To:        <casadeif@yahoo.it>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DMA problem with DVD drive
Message-ID:  <49300.217.187.89.29.1074277877.squirrel@interview-machine.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040116112956.GA2673@goku.kasby>
References:  <49183.217.187.89.107.1074242037.squirrel@interview-machine.com> <20040116112956.GA2673@goku.kasby>

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>> I am not able to enable DMA for my DVD drive.

> I have a similar drive on my Toshiba Satellite A30-514 and to set UDMA
> mode on boot I have put the following line in /boot/loader.conf:
>
> hw.ata.atapi_dma="1"
>
> Here's the relevant part of dmesg output:
>
> acd0: CDRW <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412> at ata1-master UDMA33

I also tried this. As well as
hw.ata.ata_dma="1"

no success with that. I suppose its a f***cked up controller.

I think I have to go with Linux for things which need DMA, like DVD playback.

Best regards, ROman




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