phoemix_at_harmless.hu wrote: > Hello, > As known, FreeBSD sets the highest supported ATA mode, but sometimes it's > inproper, since the disk fails to work in this mode. This will be obsolate = > by > recent SATA drives, but PATA is still in use :) > I've though of the possibility of adding an "atamodetab" rc script, with wh= > ich > the administrator could specify the disk modes to set on startup. ......^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .... No good waiting for an admin to manually edit a table: An admin cant edit till FreeBSD boots. FreeBSD fails to boot on some older laptops eg http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/digital/ http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/dell_latitude_xpi_p133st/ unless one pre-knows FreeBSD magic like loader.conf hw.ata.ata_dma=0 http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/#loader.conf A table in src/ that would automatically recognise flakey ATA hardware & reduce ambitious FreeBSD so it could boot, would be nice. > I've already got a sketch for this script that I use, but I'd like to ask, = > does > it worth the effort working on it a bit more, and adding it to the core OS?= > I > think this would be a quite useful feature to have. Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com Mail just Ascii plain text. HTML & Base64 text are spam.Received on Fri May 23 2008 - 13:21:07 UTC
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