ata mode at startup

Andrey V. Elsukov bu7cher at yandex.ru
Mon May 26 04:58:47 UTC 2008


Alexey Shuvaev wrote:
> I think such a thing should be set much earlier than in rc script,
> somewhere in loader.conf(5) and it is already done.
>>From ata(4):
> [snip]
>      The following tunables are settable from the loader:
>      hw.ata.ata_dma
>      set to 1 for DMA access, 0 for PIO (default is DMA).
>      hw.ata.atapi_dma
>      set to 1 for DMA access, 0 for PIO (default is DMA).

What about using string values for these knobs, similar to
atacontrol's modes?

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov


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