What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ?

Jeremie Le Hen jeremie at le-hen.org
Tue Feb 22 11:10:20 GMT 2005


Hi Gavin,

> Safe mode forces PIO mode (disabling the use of DMA) and disables write
> caching for all IDE hard drives and CD ROM drives, disables the probing
> of EISA slots (as very few systems have them), and in i386 it also
> disables the use of ACPI and the APICs.

do you know where it is documented ?

Regards,
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Jeremie Le Hen
jeremie at le-hen dot org


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