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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 15:52:01 -0400
From: "Donald J. Maddox" <root@scsn.net>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc: dmaddox@scsn.net, sos@sos.freebsd.dk, cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us,
        doogie@forbidden-donut.anet-stl.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: code talks:  announcing EIDE bus master patches
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On Wed, Jul 30, 1997 at 10:35:56PM +0930, Michael Smith wrote:
> Donald J. Maddox stands accused of saying:
> > ide_pci: warning, ide0:0 not configured for DMA?
> > ide_pci: warning, ide0:1 not configured for DMA?
> > ide_pci: warning, ide1:0 not configured for DMA?
> > ide_pci: warning, ide1:1 not configured for DMA?
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> >     Adding the proper flag does indeed enable the DMA, but I could care
> > less about that, since I only have Win95/NT on IDE drives.  I just want to
> > know why I am getting the messages from ide_pci, and how to shut them up.
> 
> Turn on IDE busmastering in your BIOS.  Note the syntax of the warning
> "not configured".  That's a message from the chipset driver daying
> "why is this channel not configured for DMA?".  It should probably
> just list the ports on which DMA is available and enabled/not enabled,
> but this is, after all, only beta-level code.

    There is no such option that I can see in my BIOS setup.  I am using an
ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 mainboard with BIOS version 2.047, but I can't recall ever
seeing any such option in a BIOS from ASUS.