It seems The Anarcat wrote: > On Tue Mar 25, 2003 at 08:16:28AM +0100, Soeren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems The Anarcat wrote: > > > Can't the ata drivers detect that condition or recognize the set of > > > drives that are broken instead of penalizing everyone else? > > > > ATAPI DMA is more likely to be broken than to be working, it is a > > function of both controller chip and device, in some situations even > > a function of what master/slave device combo we have.. > > > > There is a reason that almost all OS's out there has it disabled as default :) > > Thanks for those precisions... This could be a FAQ, pertaining also to > how to enable it. > > So it's enabled system-wide? Can't it be done at the bus or device > level?
You can set the transfer mode of any ATA/ATAPI device with atacontrol... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message