From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:23:48 +0100 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Venti Install In-Reply-To: <775b8d190703260040i303bd0f2wbd69cd2278f60bdd@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 313d539a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 several other people have made helpful suggestions about coping with the time to format, but i thought i'd include a reminder to ensure dma and rwm are switched on. that might require editing the switch cases in sdata.c(?). that upgrades the original PC controller scheme to work nearly as well as an RL02. the few times i've formatted venti partitions, i've found that made a big difference to the elapsed time, in the sense that i went from `how many days will this take??' to `not too bad'.