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Date:      Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:54:16 +0100 (BST)
From:      Tim Joseph <tim@weeble.org.uk>
To:        Jamie Walker <jj.walker@auckland.ac.nz>
Cc:        Marty Leisner <leisner@rochester.rr.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: U/DMA on FSBD 4.x
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103290850530.338-100000@doubtful.weeble.foo.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010329071729.B16495@auckland.ac.nz>

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On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Jamie Walker wrote:

> Considering that Win 98, Win 2000, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are all able to use DMA on
> this hardware with NO problems, this excuse is wearing a little thin.
>

To be fair to Linux and its developers, Win98 also gave me regular lock
ups/BSODs when I had DMA enabled. The locks up were just less regular when
I turned DMA off. The problems stopped altogether under Win98 when I
turned my PC off :-).

From,

Tim


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