From: andrey mirtchovski <andrey@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] installing Plan 9 under Microsoft's free Virtual PC?
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:32:40 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0A14CAC2-4DAF-4884-B0D3-5C06F9A7E75D@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9f3897940607241128v3e6832bdk49b3286db4e81f08@mail.gmail.com>
>> did you try 'echo dma on > /dev/sdC0/ctl; echo rwm on > /dev/sdC0/
>> ctl'?
>
> I didn't, because I didn't know about it - It was my first try at
> Plan 9.
>
> Maybe someone with access could add this to install instructions?
>
the installation should have asked you whether you want dma turned
on, if you said "yes" and it was still slow then the chipset is
probably not supported. with dma on the installation copies all files
in less than 5 minutes on reasonable hardware.
when you get to it, run 'pci' and send it to the list. it may turn
out that we just need to add the did/vid pair to sdata.c...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-24 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-24 16:41 Andrew Hudson
2006-07-24 17:14 ` elbing
2006-07-24 18:21 ` Paweł Lasek
2006-07-24 18:24 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-07-24 18:28 ` Paweł Lasek
2006-07-24 18:32 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-24 19:11 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-24 18:32 ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2006-07-24 18:39 ` Paweł Lasek
2006-07-24 18:41 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-24 18:45 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-24 19:03 ` Paweł Lasek
2006-07-24 19:30 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-24 19:42 ` Paweł Lasek
2006-07-24 20:24 ` Richard Miller
2006-07-24 20:30 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-25 10:31 ` Paweł Lasek
2006-07-24 18:34 Andrew Hudson
2006-07-24 19:34 ` Álvaro Jurado Cuevas
2006-07-24 22:32 ` Sascha Retzki
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