Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 09:34:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Bruce Grisham <bruce@accumatics.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do I determine that DMA is enabled on my IDE channels? Message-ID: <20000708093456.B11249@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000707123647.R25571@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <39662B55.5779CEBF@accumatics.com> <20000707123647.R25571@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Friday, 7 July 2000 at 12:36:47 -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Bruce Grisham <bruce@accumatics.com> [000707 12:18] wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I was looking through a Linux FAQ addressing IDE DMA and realized I had been >> assuming that DMA was enabled on previous FreeBSD systems I've shipped. >> >> How do I check that? My hardware supports DMA. > > Have a look at the boot log in /var/run/dmesg.boot, it should tell you. Specifically, you should see something like: ad0: 19574MB <WDC WD205BA> [39770/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA66 Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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