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Date:      Sat, 30 Aug 1997 01:34:20 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us (john hood)
Cc:        grog@lemis.com, imp@rover.village.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New warning, should I worry?
Message-ID:  <199708300634.BAA00324@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199708300508.BAA20739@smoke.marlboro.vt.us> from john hood at "Aug 30, 97 01:08:43 am"

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john hood said:
> 
> I've changed the message so it only appears when the bit is set (DMA
> has been configured) and the boot -v flag is set.  I'm still modestly
> curious to hear reports of motherboards and controller BIOSes that do
> set it (they're unusual), but I no longer need to know in order to get
> things working.
> 
Supermicro P6DNF does.  I can turn the message on and off by flipping
an ON/OFF in the bios.  I usually prefer for it to be off, but some
might like to see it :-).  It depends on my mood :-).

(Actually, the bit appears to be quite useless...)

-- 
John
dyson@freebsd.org
jdyson@nc.com



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