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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:08:08 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Adventures of a home user
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> 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