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ATA driver not as good in 4.8 as 4.5?
2003 Apr 28
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ATA driver not as good in 4.8 as 4.5?
I have a Lite-On 24102B burner on an Epox 7KXA (VIA 686A southbridge) together with a few SCSI disks. I recently upgraded from FreeBSD 4.5 to 4.7 then almost immediately to 4.8. I've had trouble with the burner since. With FreeBSD 4.5, I used "sysctl hw.atamodes=---,---,dma,---" to set the burner to DMA. Everything then worked fine. As far as I know it was using UDMA33. That's what the BIOS said it was using anyway. With FreeBSD 4.8 I use "hw.ata.atapi_dma=1" at boot. This then tells me it is using UDMA33. Unfortunately, I then o...