>Number:         20894
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       No obvious way to prevent the EIDE/ATAPI driver using DMA
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    install-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar 26 01:29:00 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Andrew Grillet
>Release:        release 1.6
>Organization:
Quickstart Technology Ltd
>Environment:
>Description:
My PCMCIA external CD reports being able to support DMA, but probably cant. When accessed by NetBSD, it turns itself off, making install impossible.

It can install windows - presumably because WIndows won't try to use the DMA. I am sure there is a way to tell NetBSD not to attempt DMA, but I cant find how to do it in the docs. 

This needs to be obvious in the docs at the same place in install.* as the PCMCIA configuration stuff. 
>How-To-Repeat:
RTFM! - the docs don't say this, o=r if they do, its not in the right place, or the necessary references are missing.
>Fix:
Add explanation to install.*

I assume there IS an easy way to configure the driver duing install, or at least some way to use ddb to do it. (Its easy in FreeBSD)
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