On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 01:09:21AM +1000, Petr Janda wrote: > Mine is set to 0. SO I did sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 and it says: > > sysctl: oid 'hw.ata.atapi_dma' is read only > > Why is that?
It is a tunable as well, so set it in /boot/loader.conf. > atacontrol has shown me that the device was in PIO4, so I set it to > UDMA4 instead(which is what my drive should be using as it supports it), > but then my dvds couldnt be read so I tried UDMA2 and it improved it > heaps though not perfect, and it seems that mplayer seems to crash more :S. This is strange... Well, that the drive can't handle UDMA4 is not really surprising, but you shouldn't see much issues with UDMA2. *How* does mplayer crash? Joerg
