From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 30 23: 2: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5995614BC6 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 23:02:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from nwlink.com (ip13.r1.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.172.13]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA16759 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 23:02:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <386C543D.6E59C9DF@nwlink.com> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 22:59:09 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: some performance issues References: <386C023E.680FC31@inna.net> <386C0676.F39EC477@3-cities.com> <386C2354.ABD1ED54@nwlink.com> <386C3173.1D695393@3-cities.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > The 0x2000 allows IDE DMA transfers and that could be part of your > problem. Some drives like that setting and some systems don't. It is > something that you can try by seting it at boot time. If it works, > then you build it into your kernel. My drives are all 0xa0ffa0ff. > 8+2=a. Where did the 8+2 come from? This is really confusing to me. Do you mean that you get both 2000 and 80ff at the same time by using a? Thanks in advance, Joseph <):-{> -- You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Colette. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message