On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote:
> >
> > That helps me, but if I'm not mistaken it also disabled UDMA33 on the
> > second drive.
>
> Yup, it was more to determine is DMA really was your problem...
It was :)
> >
> > That'd be really nice, though if the kernel doesn't even boot to single
> > user mode, I don't see how this would help users with this problem, as
> > you'd have to do it before reboot.
>
> The idea is to boot in non-DMA mode, and then have a script setup
> the wanted modes from etc/rc*. That way you can always boot into
> singleuser mode and change the access modes...
>
Ah, that'd be very cool. Thinking of it, wouldn't FreeBSD be the only
OS around that could switch DMA modes on the fly? ;-)
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