From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 22 2: 4:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F9F6155B2 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 02:04:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12BxP7-0005OH-0Y; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 10:04:25 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA56194; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 10:05:55 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 10:03:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Nicolas Souchu Cc: "F. Heinrichmeyer" , "freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Parallel Port Zip Drive works when EPP-Mode is choosen in Bios In-Reply-To: <20000122090548.17844@armor.free.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Nicolas Souchu wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 12:26:08PM +0100, F. Heinrichmeyer wrote: > > > > > >Subject says all! This evening i will try a patch for the ata driver so > >maybe all my > >hardware at home will work again with current when certain patches are > >applied. > > Nice. The newbus architecture introduces overhead in I/O and old chipsets > (or old compatible modes) do not always support it. > > Your drive runs really faster too, doesn't it? Have you measured the overhead? I think it should be trivial compared to the effort of using inb/outb to poll a port. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message