From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jun 28 23:49:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dlanor.evertsen.nl (node11a94.a2000.nl [24.132.26.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1ED814C87 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 23:49:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl) Received: from localhost (ronald@localhost) by dlanor.evertsen.nl (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id IAA00379; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:49:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl) X-Authentication-Warning: dlanor.evertsen.nl: ronald owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:49:08 +0200 (CEST) From: "Ronald 'Ko' Klop" To: Alex Povolotsky Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDRecord not seeing CD-R In-Reply-To: <199906250536.JAA83650@shuttle.svib.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Alex Povolotsky wrote: > I _do_ know that SCSI is cool. I do know that IDE sucks. BTW, how do I check > that DMA is on, and should it help _really_? See 'man wd' and the options in LINT. It isn't on by default. If it works FreeBSD will say 'DMA' while probing your harddisks at boottime. I wonder why it isn't on by default, because it's just probing for DMA. So if you don't have it you will not get it. And most modern computers can use it. Greetings, Ronald. -- Ronald Klop http://node11a94.a2000.nl/~ronald/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message