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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

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