Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 13:15:30 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: ggm@connect.com.au (George Michaelson) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: canonical issue wrt DMA & wd/wdc Message-ID: <199708060345.NAA03458@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <19837.870838789@connect.com.au> from George Michaelson at "Aug 6, 97 01:39:49 pm"
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George Michaelson stands accused of saying: > > # The flags fields are used to enable the multi-sector I/O and > # the 32BIT I/O modes. The flags may be used in either the controller > # definition or in the individual disk definitions. The controller > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > wot does this mean if not add flags to wd<n> instead of wdc<n> It would appear to mean that either someone made a mistake when they wrote that, or I have misunderstood the way that config(8) generates the data for the 'wd' disk entries. > -George -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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