From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 18 06:57:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA01866 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 06:57:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA01837 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 06:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id IAA00468; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 08:55:39 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199609181355.IAA00468@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Memory allocation on freebsd To: pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au (Peter Childs) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 08:55:39 -0500 (EST) Cc: shadows@whitefang.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199609180726.QAA07101@al.imforei.apana.org.au> from "Peter Childs" at Sep 18, 96 04:56:59 pm Reply-To: dyson@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > In article you wrote: > > From memory IDE creates a hardware interrupt every 4 bytes you transfer, > and you are correct in noting that no EIDE stuff is supported, so this > turns normal machines into pigs. > Enable the IDE performance options in config, and make sure that the EIDE is enabled in the BIOS... I get really good IDE perf then. John