On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> > Harddisks: Western Digital Caviar (2.0 GB), non-DMA and
> > Western Digital Caviar (2.5 GB), DMA-33.
> > Mainboard: Asus P5A-B Super7
> > Chipset: ALi Aladdin V AGPset
>
> It probably because I relaxed the requirements for doing WDMA on disks
> that doesn't bother to tell whihc verson of the ATA spec they conform to.
> I think your case is the more seldom one, but I'm this close to
> blacklisting all WD/Maxtor drives, that would make life alot easier...
If you end up doing this, can you have the driver print a line letting
people know this is intentional? i.e.,
ad0: DMA disabled: This drive does not properly support DMA mode.
ad0: To force DMA for this drive (at your own risk) set flags 0xXX.
Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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