On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 04:35:27PM -0500, Jason Garman wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:23:57PM +0200, Thomas K?llmann wrote:
> >
> > Please excuse if this was mentioned before (I did not follow this
> > thread very closely), but isn't _not_ using
> >
> > options ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA
> >
> > enough as a measure of precaution?
> >
> > This is from LINT:
> >
> > # ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA: enable DMA on ATAPI device, since many ATAPI
> > # devices claim to support DMA but doesn't actually work, this is
> > # not enabled as default.
> >
> Note there is a subtle distinction between ATAPI devices and ATA hard
> disks. The devices which that option disables DMA for are devices like
> CD-ROMs, IDE zip drives, etc. -- NOT normal IDE hard drives -- they use
> DMA with the new driver regardless of that setting.
>
Interestingly, commenting out this option doesn't affect the mode for my CD-ROM
either.
sysctl reports
hw.atamodes: dma,---,dma,---,
First dma is for ad0, second for acd0.
And dmesg reports using UDMA-33 for CDROM, too.
acd0: CDROM <FX4010M> at ata1-master using UDMA33
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