kern/100428: [ata] [patch] no WDMA mode available for ATAPI drives

Søren Schmidt sos at deepcore.dk
Mon Jul 31 11:30:01 UTC 2006


Mark Linimon wrote:
> Synopsis: [ata] [patch] no WDMA mode available for ATAPI drives
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> Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->sos
> Responsible-Changed-By: linimon
> Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Jul 17 08:52:29 UTC 2006
> Responsible-Changed-Why: 
> Over to maintainer.
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> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=100428
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Well, WDMA modes where taken out for ATAPI devices on purpose because 
there are so many devices out there that doesn't handle this right (they 
lockup) that the support burden got out of hand.

I'd be *very* reluctant to add this back in for that same reason.

-Søren
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