Andy Polyakov <[email protected]> wrote: > >> When it comes to accuracy of information meant for general public, it's > >> difference between implying things and spelling them in manner that > >> can't be interpreted differently by different people. > >> > >>>> 1. According to 'man ata' DMA is enabled by default on Solaris 10. To my > >>>> experience with Sun W1100z it holds true. > >>> Whis this is true for Solaris 10 x86 and hard disks, it is definitely not > >>> true > >>> for the other. > >> Original statement was "Solaris 10 in general does not by default enable > >> DMA." Any sane person not intimately familiar with subject would > >> interpret that Solaris 10 never uses DMA by default. > > > > > > Well, we are talking about CD/DVD/BluRay writing and it should be obvious > > for a > > scientist, that remarks are done here with thede constraints in mind. > > General public is far from scientific. But even if it was, it would be > even more incentive to stick to most accurate formulations. > > > I cannot see statements of interest in the rest. If you like to prove that > > there > > are Sparc machines with Solaris that behave different from what all other > > users > > reported, please send the related information: > > > > - exactly describe the machine type, the OS release and the drive type. > > Information can be found in attachments.
Looking through the information does unfortunately not show anything that verifies the presence of DMA for the CD-ROM drive in question. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
