From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 5 20:46:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA25909 for current-outgoing; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 20:46:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA25903 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 20:46:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id NAA03458; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 13:15:30 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708060345.NAA03458@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: canonical issue wrt DMA & wd/wdc In-Reply-To: <19837.870838789@connect.com.au> from George Michaelson at "Aug 6, 97 01:39:49 pm" To: ggm@connect.com.au (George Michaelson) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 13:15:30 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk George Michaelson stands accused of saying: > > # The flags fields are used to enable the multi-sector I/O and > # the 32BIT I/O modes. The flags may be used in either the controller > # definition or in the individual disk definitions. The controller > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > wot does this mean if not add flags to wd instead of wdc It would appear to mean that either someone made a mistake when they wrote that, or I have misunderstood the way that config(8) generates the data for the 'wd' disk entries. > -George -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[