From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 30 07:06:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA02774 for current-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 07:06:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from trifork.gu.net (trifork.gu.net [194.93.190.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA02761 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 07:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.gu.kiev.ua [127.0.0.1]) by trifork.gu.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA01582; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 17:04:15 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 17:04:15 +0300 (EEST) From: Andrew Stesin Reply-To: stesin@gu.net To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: code talks: announcing EIDE bus master patches In-Reply-To: <9707301308.AA00366@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> Message-ID: X-NCC-RegID: ua.gu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 30 Jul 1997 garyj@frt.dec.com wrote: > I'm seeing these messages too. You probably need to enable DMA in the > BIOS, if your BIOS supports that. Mine doesn't seem to :( If your MB is sufficiently modern, the BIOS image is stored in flash memory and you can upgrade it (usually BIOS upgrades are available from manufacturer's website of FTP, together with all the instructions). I did those upgrades several times, on ASUS, PackardBell, Intel MBs, no big problem, just be careful and attentive. > --- > Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com > (home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de > (play) gj@freebsd.org Best regards, Andrew Stesin nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE