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From: lucio@proxima.alt.za (Lucio De Re)
Subject: [9fans] New venti install won't boot after 05:00 crash
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:09:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7f7676de73904677f0a70a4f34917ea3@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d066e369db2a6684b8b954c9c11e2c9@ladd.quanstro.net>

> i thought that dma problems were almost always controller/cable or master/slave
> related?  almost all the device i deal with are sata these days.  and before
> that, i stuck to scsi.
> 
Sure.  But you at Coraid and Geoff at Bell Labs are professionals, I'm
assuming (happy to be corrected) that most of us here are fumbling
amateurs and unlikely to invest our priciest resources on Plan 9
equipment.  Although, thinking about it...

> in any event, 
> -  there's a knob because i was worried about breaking old stuff.
> -  it's likely the ide driver, rather than hardware, causes this incompatability.

Good stuff.  Keep the knob and set it on by default.  Then get Geoff
and Jim to catch up with your great work, it's about time.

++L




  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-20 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-18  0:58 smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-18  3:03 ` John Floren
2011-03-18 13:26   ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-18  3:22 ` ron minnich
2011-03-18  3:30   ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-18 15:47     ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-18 16:12       ` Jacob Todd
2011-03-18 17:33         ` John Floren
2011-03-18 23:45           ` Steve Simon
2011-03-19  0:02             ` ron minnich
2011-03-19  1:04               ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-19  1:27                 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-18 16:47       ` rod at hemiola.co.uk
2011-03-19  2:15         ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-19  2:33           ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-19  2:47           ` cinap_lenrek at gmx.de
2011-03-19  2:53             ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-19  3:27               ` ron minnich
2011-03-19  4:17                 ` cinap_lenrek at gmx.de
2011-03-19  4:16               ` cinap_lenrek at gmx.de
2011-03-19 14:20               ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-19 14:32                 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-19 16:35                   ` cinap_lenrek at gmx.de
2011-03-19 20:29                     ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-19 14:47                 ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-19 15:14                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-20 15:42                     ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-20 16:57                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-20 17:12                         ` Lucio De Re
2011-03-20 17:55                           ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-20 18:09                             ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2011-03-21  3:48                             ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-21  3:57                               ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-18 17:33       ` erik quanstrom

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