It seems Michael Class wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Doug wrote:
> >
> > > First a question, namely what is the current state of the ATA
> > > drivers in -current? Are they reliable (where "reliable" goes by -current
> > > terms obviously)? I finally am in a position to test them with a new
>
> On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Doug wrote:
>
> > First a question, namely what is the current state of the ATA
> > drivers in -current? Are they reliable (where "reliable" goes by -current
> > terms obviously)? I finally am in a position to test them with a new
> > workstation that has IDE disks, so
>*apologies*. However, many Award BIOSes (all?) do not allow you to turn
>off UDMA.
All Award BIOSes that I have (for 5 working systems) support it if the
hardware supports it (2 systems).
Bruce
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On 24 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "Brian F. Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > You misunderstand. I _cannot_ disable UDMA in my BIOS.
>
> I know. The mail you answered wasn't addressed to you.
*apologies*. However, many Award BIOSes (all?) do not allow you to turn
off UDMA.
>
"Brian F. Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You misunderstand. I _cannot_ disable UDMA in my BIOS.
I know. The mail you answered wasn't addressed to you.
DES
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You misunderstand. I _cannot_ disable UDMA in my BIOS.
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Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >controller wdc0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14 flags 0xa0ffa0ff
> >
> >Will enable DMA mode with the old driver. It doesn't support UDMA on
> >all chipsets (e.g. ALI), and in some cases may give very poor
>
> Not e.g. ALI (Aladdin IV/V) (unless the ALI suppo
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >controller wdc0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14 flags 0xa0ffa0ff
> >
> >Will enable DMA mode with the old driver. It doesn't support UDMA on
> >all chipsets (e.g. ALI), and in some cases may give very poor
>
> Not e.g. ALI (Aladdin IV/V) (unless the ALI supp
>controller wdc0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14 flags 0xa0ffa0ff
>
>Will enable DMA mode with the old driver. It doesn't support UDMA on
>all chipsets (e.g. ALI), and in some cases may give very poor
Not e.g. ALI (Aladdin IV/V) (unless the ALI support is broken).
>performance when using UDMA disks,
On 24 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "Brian F. Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I didn't mean that mode 2 was special, but Ultra DMA mode 2 in its entirety being
> > very nice :) The old driver never did any form of DMA for me, much less UDMA, so
> > I'm very glad to have the ATA
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>
> Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> > > A device name isn't necessarily the same as a device node, you know.
> > Actually I do know that, but I've never come across a situation in
> > freebsd where I would call s
"Brian F. Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I didn't mean that mode 2 was special, but Ultra DMA mode 2 in its entirety being
> very nice :) The old driver never did any form of DMA for me, much less UDMA, so
> I'm very glad to have the ATA drivers.
controller wdc0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14
Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> > A device name isn't necessarily the same as a device node, you know.
> Actually I do know that, but I've never come across a situation in
> freebsd where I would call something one thing in my kernel config f
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:16:23 MST, Doug wrote:
> If you are saying that I ought to include atapicd in my kernel config
> and use the acdN device node, that's all I need to know, but it does
> bring up the question of why the two things are different. It seems
> like unecessary obfuscation to me.
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >For me, it's very reliable. It even supports Ultra DMA 2 mode! And of course,
> >I'm happy with the atapi-fd driver :) See:
>
> UDMA mode 2 is normal 33 MB/sec UDMA mode and has been supported by the
> old driver for about 2 years now (although not for
>For me, it's very reliable. It even supports Ultra DMA 2 mode! And of course,
>I'm happy with the atapi-fd driver :) See:
UDMA mode 2 is normal 33 MB/sec UDMA mode and has been supported by the
old driver for about 2 years now (although not for all chipsets).
Bruce
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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Doug wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Doug wrote:
> >
> > > First a question, namely what is the current state of the ATA
> > > drivers in -current? Are they reliable (where "reliable" goes by -current
> > > terms obviously)
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Doug wrote:
>
> > First a question, namely what is the current state of the ATA
> > drivers in -current? Are they reliable (where "reliable" goes by -current
> > terms obviously)? I finally am in a position to test them with
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Doug wrote:
> First a question, namely what is the current state of the ATA
> drivers in -current? Are they reliable (where "reliable" goes by -current
> terms obviously)? I finally am in a position to test them with a new
> workstation that has IDE disks, so I thought
First a question, namely what is the current state of the ATA
drivers in -current? Are they reliable (where "reliable" goes by -current
terms obviously)? I finally am in a position to test them with a new
workstation that has IDE disks, so I thought I'd give it a go.
Also, I was t
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