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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Adventures of a home user
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:08:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a771ac941bba6aa6f61b0187cc3e82c9@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea634cc80904181801j2f6912a2u362fdf626c209a73@mail.gmail.com>

> When I installed Plan 9, it took more than an hour to format 2GB.

the plan 9 ide driver will use pio unless you tell it to do otherwise.
i'm not sure if this applies to qemu, but assuming your emulated drive
is sdC0, you can turn on dma with
	echo dma on > /dev/sdC0/ctl

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-19  1:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-19  1:01 Jim Habegger
2009-04-19  1:05 ` john
2009-04-19  1:08 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-04-19 10:15 ` yy
2009-04-19 14:16 ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-19 14:34   ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-19 14:43   ` Anthony Sorace
2009-04-19 15:37   ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-20 10:42     ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-21  7:55       ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-21 22:03         ` blstuart
2009-04-20  5:01 ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-20  5:13   ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-20  5:38     ` André Günther
2009-04-20  5:22   ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-04-20  7:14 ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-21  3:38 ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-21  5:14   ` john
2009-04-21  7:05   ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-04-21  3:52 ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-21  3:55   ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-21 12:06     ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-21 22:13       ` blstuart
2009-04-21  6:02 ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-21  6:31   ` Anthony Sorace
2009-04-21  6:59     ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-21  9:10 ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-21 11:26   ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-21 15:26   ` john
2009-04-21 15:34     ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-21 20:01 ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-21 21:28   ` Karin Willers
2009-04-21 22:23   ` blstuart
2009-04-22  0:29     ` john
2009-04-22  1:07       ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-23  9:12 ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-23 10:23   ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-23 15:55     ` maht

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