From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 28 11:17:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.auckland.ac.nz (mailhost.auckland.ac.nz [130.216.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27C2F37B718 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:17:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walker@gromit.ele.auckland.ac.nz) Received: from gromit.ele.auckland.ac.nz (IDENT:postfix@gromit.ele.auckland.ac.nz [130.216.216.23]) by mailhost.auckland.ac.nz (8.9.2/8.9.2/8.9.2-ua) with ESMTP id HAA24692; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 07:17:30 +1200 (NZST) Received: by gromit.ele.auckland.ac.nz (Postfix, from userid 501) id 1C4B83EF0; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 07:17:30 +1200 (NZST) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 07:17:30 +1200 From: Jamie Walker To: Tim Joseph Cc: Marty Leisner , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: U/DMA on FSBD 4.x Message-ID: <20010329071729.B16495@auckland.ac.nz> References: <200103280540.AAA04884@soyata.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from tim@weeble.org.uk on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:10:21AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:10:21AM +0100, Tim Joseph wrote: > I think at the time, Linux DMA support for my chipset was marked > experimental (or maybe just new). Also, enabling UDMA at all was called > dangerous in the hdparm man page. But I admit that I did fiddle with other > options which were "dangerous" too (eg. unmask IRQ) > > Plain old DMA just reset itself without pain after a day or so. UDMA plus > other bits, trashed my HDD. It seems that one area where *BSD is clearly superior to Linux is in the IDE drivers. Various posts to the linux kernel mailing lists have blamed buggy hardware/buggy drives etc for the problems that I've had with my on-board Promise controller (corruption when enabling DMA, etc). Considering that Win 98, Win 2000, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are all able to use DMA on this hardware with NO problems, this excuse is wearing a little thin. -- Fone: +64-9-373-7599 x4679 Room: 2.315, E&EE Dept, School of Engineering Work: jj.walker@auckland.ac.nz Home: jamiew@clear.net.nz ICQ: 5632563 or shout loudly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message