From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 22 3:48: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from webweaving.org (dialfwn11.fwn.rug.nl [129.125.32.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA9AC150EE for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 03:47:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from n_hibma@webweaving.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by webweaving.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00746; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 12:30:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from n_hibma@webweaving.org) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 12:30:08 +0100 (CET) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@localhost Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Doug White Cc: Soren Schmidt , Theo van Klaveren , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with the ATA-driver In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If you end up doing this, can you have the driver print a line letting > people know this is intentional? i.e., > > ad0: DMA disabled: This drive does not properly support DMA mode. > ad0: To force DMA for this drive (at your own risk) set flags 0xXX. Let's not go the Linux way and make the boot messages slow down booting. Mentioning it in the manpage should be sufficient I guess. Blacklisting devices sounds like a good idea if tey fail to work correctly in many cases. Nick -- n_hibma@webweaving.org n_hibma@freebsd.org USB project http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message