From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 14 09:00:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22336 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 09:00:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wakky.dyn.ml.org (lee@ppp-25-54.tidalwave.net [208.220.25.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22328 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 09:00:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lee@wakky.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from lee@localhost) by wakky.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA12907; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 11:59:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lee) Message-ID: <19980114115956.58321@wakky.dyn.ml.org> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 11:59:56 -0500 From: Lee Cremeans To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any good comparison of Linux/FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/Hurd? Reply-To: lcremean@tidalwave.net References: <6373.884772923@verdi.nethelp.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e In-Reply-To: <6373.884772923@verdi.nethelp.no>; from sthaug@nethelp.no on Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 11:15:23AM +0100 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE X-Evil: microsoft.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 11:15:23AM +0100, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > (Looking at the idle time with vmstat seems to indicate that the EIDE > drive is *not* using bus mastering - I thought > > ide_pci0: rev 0x00 on pci0.7.1 > > indicated that bus mastering *would* be used, but evidently not so.) What are your flags on wdc0 and wdc1? Bit 0x2000 has to be set for each drive to enable DMA support on that drive. You flags should be something like 0xa0ffa0ff (which enables all the performance features, including DMA). -- Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) A! JW223 YWD+++^ri P&B++ SL+++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac/95/96 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | hcremean (at) vt.edu FreeBSD/Linux/Unix hacker...Win95 and M$ evil! (go see www.freebsd.org) My home page: http://wakky.dyn.ml.org/~lee | finger me for geek code