Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:09:42 +0100 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ? Message-ID: <20050222110942.GL1437@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> In-Reply-To: <1109069234.48695.14.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> References: <BAY13-F4357657A035A14AAD02DCD1620@phx.gbl> <1109069234.48695.14.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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Hi Gavin, > Safe mode forces PIO mode (disabling the use of DMA) and disables write > caching for all IDE hard drives and CD ROM drives, disables the probing > of EISA slots (as very few systems have them), and in i386 it also > disables the use of ACPI and the APICs. do you know where it is documented ? Regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen jeremie at le-hen dot org
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