On Mon Mar 24, 2003 at 03:33:51PM -0500, Don wrote: > > On Mon Mar 24, 2003 at 02:14:48PM -0500, Don wrote: > > > > Should a PR be filed or some QA team contacted to make sure this > > > > problem doesn't stay alive in 5.2? :) > > > This isn't, by chance, a problem with your setting for the > > > sysctl "hw.ata.atapi_dma" is it? > > How extraordinarly cute! This solves it! I'm currently listening to > > Me, Mom and Morgentaler and burning a 4x CD without any slowdown, this > > is great. > Glad to be of help. Anytime you have odd system problems like that give > "sysctl -a" a perusal. Sometimes you will be surprised at what you find. > > There was definitely a reason for turning off DMA access for atapi devices > by default, I just can not remember why. I'm sure this issue and the > reason were mentioned on the list already.
Right... Another dig through the archives I guess. :(
> > PS: what's the proper way to enable ATAPI DMA in the loader.conf file?
> > I don't see any flag WRT that there.. I'm tempted to add:
> >
> > set hw.ata.atapi_cam=1
> hw.ata.atapi_dma not _cam :)
Now *that* was an odd typo.
A.
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