Enable ata DMA on a PowerMac G4?

Peter Grehan grehan at freebsd.org
Fri Apr 7 21:13:57 UTC 2006


Hi Torfinn,

> And I guess it would take more than changing the 
>         atadev->mode = ATA_PIO;
> in ata_macio_setmode() in ata_macio.c to fix it?

  Yes - the DMA controller for the macio ata cells is very unlike 
'standard' PIIX PCI-ATA DMA.

later,

Peter.


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