From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 10 0:43:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A6D014DE2 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 00:43:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id JAA21610; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:41:48 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id JAA23635; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:39:23 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA16895; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:21:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr (nairobi.telspace.alcatel.fr) by telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA21485; Wed, 10 Mar 99 09:31:35 +0100 Message-Id: <36E62F20.B616754C@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:36:48 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry Organization: Alcatel Telspace X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Boune, Damian" Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Kernel Compile Options - wdc0 - flags? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, IDE DMA is (AFAIK) only supported on 3.x FreeBSD (as well as 4.x, of course). This was the main reason why I stepped up to 3.x TfH "Boune, Damian" wrote: > > After reading through the archives, many other folks kernel option files, > Greg's book and website and everywhere else I could find, I have a swimming > headache! > > I have a PC here with a 430hx Intel chipset, PIIX3, a 6 gig drive, LBA > supported - What should my "controller wdc0 at isa?..." line in my Kernel > Options file look like? > > I'm using FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE. Should I be using any of the available > flags? I am under the impression that I should be using I saw somewhere that > DMA is not supported in 2.2.8!?! Was it supported in 2.2.5 or .6? My data on > the subject dates to 2.2.5 (The Complete FreeBSD). > > I currently have FreeBSD running on the machine, and luckily I have no > errors on boot or at any other time. > > Thank you! > > Damian Boune > County Of Napa > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message