hw.ata.atapi_dma patch for ata(4) man page?

Craig Rodrigues rodrigc at crodrigues.org
Fri Dec 10 00:09:41 UTC 2004


Hi,

In ata(4), it states:

 hw.ata.atapi_dma
     set to 1 for DMA access, 0 for PIO (default is PIO).

In src/sys/dev/ata/ata-all.c, this sysctl is by default
set to 1 (on -CURRENT, and also on 5.3-RELEASE).

Perhaps this patch is in order?

--- share/man/man4/ata.4.orig   Thu Dec  9 19:07:53 2004
+++ share/man/man4/ata.4        Thu Dec  9 19:08:08 2004
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
 .It Va hw.ata.ata_dma
 set to 1 for DMA access, 0 for PIO (default is DMA).
 .It Va hw.ata.atapi_dma
-set to 1 for DMA access, 0 for PIO (default is PIO).
+set to 1 for DMA access, 0 for PIO (default is DMA).
 .It Va hw.ata.wc
 set to 1 to enable Write Caching, 0 to disable (default is enabled).
 .Em WARNING :



-- 
Craig Rodrigues        
rodrigc at crodrigues.org



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