Re: Strange DMA behavior under 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-20 Thread Sean Welch
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:46:28AM -0600, Sean Farley wrote: > That is odd. I can see it happening on my old Dell PII. The sysctl > only enable DMA capability I believe. It is enabled by default. If you > disable it during boot, I would guess you would not be able to set WDMA2 > with atacontrol

Re: Strange DMA behavior under 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Sean Farley
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Sean Welch wrote: I originally sent a message about this to the questions list but I've not received any responses. Possibly the people who could answer my question do not read that list. Hopefully someone here can help! The message in question can be viewed here: http://docs

Re: Strange DMA behavior under 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Steven Hartland
Have you tried setting it in /etc/sysctl.conf instead of /boot/loader.conf.? Steve - Original Message - From: "Sean Welch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I originally sent a message about this to the questions list but I've not received any responses. Possibly the people who could answer my que

Strange DMA behavior under 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Sean Welch
I originally sent a message about this to the questions list but I've not received any responses. Possibly the people who could answer my question do not read that list. Hopefully someone here can help! The message in question can be viewed here: http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200411150005