On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:40:09PM +0000, Mark White wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer writes:
> > On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:56:31PM +0000, Mark White wrote:
> > > I have a couple of problems which are probably related - can
> > > anybody shed some light on them?  I am running NetBSD 1.5
> > > BETA2, on a K6/2-550 (Aladdin MB).
> > 
> > Do you know which IDE controller is has ?
> 
> I don't have the manual, but from dmesg:
> 
> pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0: Acer Labs M5229 UDMA IDE
>     Controller (rev. 0xc2)
> pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
> pciide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
> atapibus0 at pciide0 channel 0
> 
> > > 1. The drive access light is on when the system boots, and
> > > remains on until the CDROM [samsung 40x] is first accessed.
> >
> > Yes, I see it too on occasion. This shouldn't cause any harm
> 
> Ok.  (Except keeping me awake at night - I have to share a
> room with this PC...)
> 
> > > [...] Both HDDs [fujitsu 8.4 and maxtor 2.5] and the ZIP drive
> > > seem to work in DMA mode.
> > 
> > I don't think NetBSD supports DMA for the parallel port.
> 
> It's an ATAPI zip (they were cheaper at the time).

Yes, but didn't you talk about parallel port in DMA mode (in BIOS) ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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