From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 28 23:54:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A2E37B71B for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 23:54:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tim@weeble.org.uk) Received: from josep.demon.co.uk ([194.222.61.233] helo=doubtful.weeble.foo.uk) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14iXGA-000Ms3-0X; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:54:22 +0100 Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by doubtful.weeble.foo.uk (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2T7sGv00347; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:54:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from tim@weeble.org.uk) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:54:16 +0100 (BST) From: Tim Joseph X-X-Sender: To: Jamie Walker Cc: Marty Leisner , Subject: Re: U/DMA on FSBD 4.x In-Reply-To: <20010329071729.B16495@auckland.ac.nz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Jamie Walker wrote: > Considering that Win 98, Win 2000, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are all able to use DMA on > this hardware with NO problems, this excuse is wearing a little thin. > To be fair to Linux and its developers, Win98 also gave me regular lock ups/BSODs when I had DMA enabled. The locks up were just less regular when I turned DMA off. The problems stopped altogether under Win98 when I turned my PC off :-). From, Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message