On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 12:51:24AM -0800, Jonathan R. Hinds wrote:
> dmesg says the follow about the controller and hard drive:
> 
> wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
> wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <QUANTUM FIREBALL1280A>
> wd0: drive supports 8-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
> wd0: 1222MB, 2484 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2503872 sectors
> wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
> 
> Does this mean that it is using DMA? I guess that I will try another hard

No. The drive supports DMA but not the controller.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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