Strange DMA behavior under 5.3-RELEASE

[Sean Welch]

I originally sent a message about this to the questions list but I've
not received any responses.  Possibly the people who could answer my
question do not read that list.  Hopefully someone here can help!

The message in question can be viewed here:

http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20041115000519.GA2127

Is anyone else seeing this odd "half way" behavior?  The hardware
seems to take the atacontrol command just fine but somehow the mode
isn't being set at boot even though the proper sysctl is set.

Sean