From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 20:33:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05719 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:33:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA05626 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:33:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA28634; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:31:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:31:00 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ron Gerstle cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra-ATA hard drive compatibility In-Reply-To: <199802251612.LAA25857@seethru.rad.unc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Ron Gerstle wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > I have a PC with an 8 GB hard drive that has an Ultra-ATA controller. > Linux apparently has problems with Ultra-ATA, but the hardware > compatibility page on your site says that ATA is supported. Does that ATA > support include Ultra-ATA? As long as it talks straight IDE it should work fine. FreeBSD doesn't take advantage of UltraDMA/33 unless you install -CURRENT. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message