From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
Cc: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil shutdown
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 07:23:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e605092207236f41dcf5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a0509220719640dca03@mail.gmail.com>
On 9/22/05, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > If you've ever tried to venti format a 20GB disk you'd know why it
> > sucks to deal with.
>
> If you turn DMA on, formatting the 20GB disk
> will be a lot faster. (All the time is spent zeroing
> the disk.)
>
If someone adds DMA support for NForce2 based motherboards I'll gladly
do that :).
It's a waste of time though. Nforce4 is out there now, my stuff is
too old and busted to be worried about.
I'd prefer to work with "the new hotness".
Based on what I've been seeing though [roadmap-wise], my next machine
will likely be Intel and not AMD based.
Dave
> Russ
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-22 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-22 8:01 fgergo
2005-09-22 14:15 ` David Leimbach
2005-09-22 14:19 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-09-22 14:53 ` David Leimbach
2005-10-07 3:51 ` Thomas Miller
2005-10-07 4:11 ` Russ Cox
2005-10-07 10:21 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-10-07 15:49 ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-10-07 16:02 ` Russ Cox
2005-09-22 14:19 ` Russ Cox
2005-09-22 14:23 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2005-09-22 14:38 ` David Leimbach
2005-09-22 16:11 ` Dave Eckhardt
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