Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 22:03:52 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: e8917523@linf.unb.br Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE and DMA Message-ID: <199609120503.WAA06174@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9609112116.AA0227@DANIEL.sobral> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at Sep 12, 96 00:16:20 am
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> > DMA mode isn't supported AFAIK. > > > > I think the problem is still that it is impossible to reliably detect > > support for the mode without crashing older (WD1007, etc.?) hardware. > > option??? Not meant as a criticism, nor as a request. I would like to > know how easy/difficult it would be to add this as an "option" in the > config, and what would be the problems in doing this. It would take pleading with Soren; he already said he could be talked into it. As an option-not-enabled-by-default, it's unobtrusive. > Also, please define "crash" in more technical terms. :-) Cease functioning until you rebbot (at which time the probe crashes it yet again, since code doesn't mutate. 8-)). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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