Use hw.ata.atapi.dma="x" for atapi devices(cdroms and dvdroms). Drop that atapi for hard drives. Here x = 0-6 at speeds of 16.7, 25, 33.3, 44.4, 66.7, 100, 133. Mode 6 only works on select drives, like mators, with a board that supports, like an nforce. Most cdroms should not be more than a mode 2. Thats for a 52x where 52x150kb/s=7800kb/s=7.6mb/s max transfer. My liteon supports 33.3mb/s tranfers, and I use that mode but it is no real avantage over mode 0 or 1. Dvds use 1250kb/s as their x value, so a 8x dvd would need 8x1250kb/s=10000kb/s=9.8mb/s. So just cut and paste this in the loader.conf file.



Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote:

On Monday 06 October 2003 19:49, Mike Silbersack wrote:


On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote:


Thank you very much.

It's working. I've tried to play a DVD using "ogle", but
it doesn't work very well, the movement isn't steady....I've got
a friend with the same laptop using Linux and he tells me it works
nice.....so I guess it's a FreeBSD performance problem....*sigh*

Thank you anyway.

--
JFRH


FreeBSD doesn't enable DMA access to CD/DVD drives by default, that may be
part of the problem; try enabling atapi_dma (see the ata manpage), that
might help.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



I've tried both atapi_dma="1" in "loader.conf" and "atacontrol mode 1 udma100 XXX" but when I attempt to access the device, it hangs up.


I copy a "dmesg" if this can help. Look at the end there are some error messages related to ATA....




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