DVD/CD-RW not recognized (was: Re:)

[Fierman]

On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 08:46, Peter Rosa wrote:
> It's because (as I know from some old articles) if you connect
> one device with high-speed, and second with lower speed
> onto the same cable, they will BOTH use the lower speed.
> And it may be problematic for some new HDD, to be
> as slow as CD is (using PIO, or UDMA-33) (although
> they all say about standards conformity etc.).
> 
> Peter Rosa
> 

sounds plausible, but then again,
I DID try :

- hw.ata.atapi_dma to "0" or "1" in /boot/loader.conf
- hw.ata.ata_dma to "0" or "1" in /boot/loader.conf

the HDD (a 2 year old 40 GB maxtor) works fine in pio mode..

It would be great if the ATA driver author could find some time/energy
to look into this..

cheers, Fierman