It seems Anish Mistry wrote: > > > > it DMA was fixed for my CD/DVD combo drive. I changed the > > > > hw.ata.atapi_dma="0" > > > > to hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" in my /boot/loader.conf. After a reboot I tried > > There is no PIO fallback in ATAng (so far), if you know that your ATAPI > > device doesn't do DMA why on earth do you enable it ? > > > Because the drive does support DMA. I've tested to see it DMA actually works > in windows, PIO vs DMA while playing a DVD, and there is a big difference, > and I can only assume that it works.
Hmm, I didn't hear the "works in windows" bit :) Could you mail me a dmesg from the system, that might uncover some usefull info on if/how/why DMA can work on your HW.. -Søren _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
