Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Søren Schmidt writes: > > However the Serverworks > > ROSB4 chips is not one I would recommend using, if you need serious > > ATA support on such a board, install a Promise TX2 or later or a > > HPT370 or later ... > > I don't much care about serious ATA support on these machines --
Apparently, neither does the chip vendor. 8-p. > nearly all work is done on NFS volumes exported from an alpha. If I > can just trust PIO not to corrupt the system disk, then it will be > fine for me. > > So.. Is PIO safe? Is there any sort of CRC being done on PIO data? He just said: if your chipset is programmed correctly by the BIOS, then there will not be a problem, but apparently, there is a very narrow band of "correctly" (perhaps even only a single state), and the vendor apparently does not default the chip into that state. FWIW, Julian had to fix a similar problem by programming the heck out of a Cyrix MediaGX chipset via a custom BIOS. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
