via 8237 and above-udma33 problems

[Søren Schmidt]

Divacky Roman wrote:
>>>2) if not - how may I tell fbsd to initialize this drive (resp. the
>>>channel the drive is attached to) to udma33 instead of the default mode.
>>>I want to boot from that drive so I cannot use atacontrol or whatever
>>>since it would have hanged before I'd enter user-space system
>>>initialization
>>
>>Put  hw.ata.ata_dma=0
>>/boot/loader.conf
> 
> 
> I WANT dma! just not udma100 but udma33... so this is not what I want
> I think there should be some
> device.hints:dev.ata.adX.mode=blah

You can just specify no dma in loader.conf and then use atacontrol to 
set the wanted mode on each device later on in rc.local or whatever you 
prefer...

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-Søren