From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 19 22: 7:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6555237B424 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:07:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3K57q810028; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:07:52 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200104200507.f3K57q810028@harmony.village.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: [OT] parallel port for IO? Cc: David Miller , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2001 06:49:07 +0200." <66167.987742147@critter> References: <66167.987742147@critter> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:07:52 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <66167.987742147@critter> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: : Then the disk is probably running in PIO mode which thrashes your : interrrupts. That's likely right. This was a real low end machine, designed to be smalffl and cheap. : >The pentium systems were much better about this. : : Probably because it ran DMA... Yes. And a higher clock rate. And faster memory. And no disk (CF only, but that was read only). And more memory. Wanrer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message