Terry Lambert writes: > > 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.
I was asking a more general question about ATA -- I know that UDMA has has some sort of CRC protection because (on other machines) I've seen the occasional error about a bad CRC, retrying. But what I don't know is if PIO offers the same protection. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
