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Date:      Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:01:20 -0700
From:      Studded <Studded@san.rr.com>
To:        Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com>
Cc:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: best wdc0 flags ?
Message-ID:  <353B00D0.9A7A03F8@san.rr.com>
References:  <XFMail.980418183534.dburr@POBoxes.com>

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Donald Burr wrote:

> The best combination of flags is 0x80ff, this will turn on 32-bit
> transfers and will do multi-block up to the maximum that is supported by
> the drive.

	I tried those flags and noticed that it turned on 32-bit transfers for
my wd0, resulting in a 20% increase in throughput. Out of curiosity, why
aren't these flags included in GENERIC? 

Doug

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