Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:04:57 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: n_hibma@webweaving.org (Nick Hibma) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White), havoc@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl (Theo van Klaveren), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with the ATA-driver Message-ID: <199912221204.NAA43886@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912221228570.339-100000@localhost> from Nick Hibma at "Dec 22, 1999 12:30:08 pm"
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It seems Nick Hibma wrote: > > If you end up doing this, can you have the driver print a line letting > > people know this is intentional? i.e., > > > > ad0: DMA disabled: This drive does not properly support DMA mode. > > ad0: To force DMA for this drive (at your own risk) set flags 0xXX. > > Let's not go the Linux way and make the boot messages slow down booting. Agreed. > Mentioning it in the manpage should be sufficient I guess. Blacklisting > devices sounds like a good idea if tey fail to work correctly in many > cases. The problem being how to get a list that is "good enough" for the majority of cases. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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