From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 31 11:56:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC0314D8E for ; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 11:56:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 1246xp-000HUl-00; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 18:39:49 +0000 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 18:39:49 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: R Joseph Wright Cc: "Norman C. Rice" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: some performance issues Message-ID: <19991231183949.A593@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <386C023E.680FC31@inna.net> <386C0676.F39EC477@3-cities.com> <386C2354.ABD1ED54@nwlink.com> <386C3173.1D695393@3-cities.com> <386C543D.6E59C9DF@nwlink.com> <19991231104441.C2609@emu.sourcee.com> <386CE8AB.29A140B5@nwlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <386CE8AB.29A140B5@nwlink.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG R Joseph Wright wrote: > That's making some sense. Now, what does the ff in 0xa0ff stand for? RTFM, wd(4). 0x00ff Test and use multi-sector transfer mode of this drive, max number of sectors attempted is (flags & 0x00ff). -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message