Subject: RE: NetBSD 1.0b SCSI problem
To: JOCHEN BUEHLER <buehler@chclu.chemie.uni-konstanz.de>
From: Michael Kofod <v17@dec5102.aarhues.dk>
List: amiga-dev
Date: 08/30/1994 12:20:32
> > The default setup tries to allocate a DMA bounce buffer in Z2 memory
> > (if available) or Chip mem, but there must be something wrong
> > with the DMA routines.
>
> Hmm.. Is anybody working on fixing this?
>
> Michael Hitch tried but as he doesn't own an A2091 I had to test
> the changes.
> As I'm no kernel hacker I cannot contribute much to this problem.
> But if you want to investigate you're welcome !
I'm not a kernel hacker neither. Not yet anyway :) but if it's only one
driver I might figure out something..
> Thanks I'll try that, just a same DMA will not work.. It worked fine in
> my old 0.9a #744 kernel..
>
> Really ? On my system HD speed wasn't faster with 744 (haven't checked
> wether DMA worked or not :) )
Hmm.. I thought DMA was default enabled but perhaps it wasn't.. I tried
to binpatch my kernel yesterday but I got a Symbol not found, what
kernel are you using? Can you uuencode and send it to me or suply me with
a ftp site?
> Hmm.. Maybe I should have a look at some source files.
>
> Yes.
I'll see if I can get them home today..
/Michael
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