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Date: Mon,  4 Jun 2007 10:55:57 +0200
From: "Antonin Vecera" <antonin.vecera@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil crash after installation
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On 6/4/07, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
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> You could try turning off disk i/o DMA just in case that helps,
> DMA seems to be the quirkest area in the IDE interface.
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>         echo 'dma off' > /dev/sd00/ctl
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Do you think it is enough to disable DMA in BIOS?
Or is it necessary to disable it in Plan 9?
Should I care what is set in PIO mode?

Antonin

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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Simon</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:steve@quintile.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">steve@quintile.net
</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>You could try turning off disk i/o DMA just in case that helps,<br>DMA seems to be the quirkest area in the IDE interface.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;echo &#39;dma off&#39; &gt; /dev/sd00/ctl<br></blockquote></div><br><br>Do you think it is enough to disable DMA in BIOS?
<br>Or is it necessary to disable it in Plan 9?<br>Should I care what is set in PIO mode?<br><br>Antonin<br>

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