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Date:      Wed, 18 Sep 1996 08:55:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au (Peter Childs)
Cc:        shadows@whitefang.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Memory allocation on freebsd
Message-ID:  <199609181355.IAA00468@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199609180726.QAA07101@al.imforei.apana.org.au> from "Peter Childs" at Sep 18, 96 04:56:59 pm

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> In article <Pine.NEB.3.95.960914230530.24754g-100000@broken.whitefang.com> 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



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