From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 22 11:10:20 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A86016A4D1 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:10:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postfix4-1.free.fr (postfix4-1.free.fr [213.228.0.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 002FD43D1F for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:10:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (vol75-8-82-233-239-98.fbx.proxad.net [82.233.239.98]) by postfix4-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42A8D2928F6; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:10:19 +0100 (CET) Received: by tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 40B18407C; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:09:42 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:09:42 +0100 From: Jeremie Le Hen To: Gavin Atkinson Message-ID: <20050222110942.GL1437@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <1109069234.48695.14.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1109069234.48695.14.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.7i cc: John Palmer cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:10:20 -0000 Hi Gavin, > Safe mode forces PIO mode (disabling the use of DMA) and disables write > caching for all IDE hard drives and CD ROM drives, disables the probing > of EISA slots (as very few systems have them), and in i386 it also > disables the use of ACPI and the APICs. do you know where it is documented ? Regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen jeremie at le-hen dot org