Re: ATAng no PIO fallback?

From: Mark Huizer <freebsd_at_dohd.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:43:21 +0200
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:47:56PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> 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..
 
For the kernel before ATAng:
   see dmesg.beforeATAng

For a small list of DMA according to Windows XP
   see dmesg.windows

I'm still looking how I can get it to boot with a kernel after ATAng.
It fails with "ad0: WARNING: READ_DMA ICRC warning" or something like
that.

Mark
-- 
Nice testing in little China...

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