From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 11 22:05:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA05962 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 22:05:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA05957 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 22:05:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA06174; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 22:03:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199609120503.WAA06174@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: IDE and DMA To: e8917523@linf.unb.br Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 22:03:52 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9609112116.AA0227@DANIEL.sobral> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at Sep 12, 96 00:16:20 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.