Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 23:41:13 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Steve Friedrich <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> Cc: "jobaldwi@vt.edu" <jobaldwi@vt.edu>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hard disk problems and some questions... Message-ID: <XFMail.980916234113.jobaldwi@vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <199809170033.UAA17052@laker.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 17-Sep-98 Steve Friedrich wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:41:11 -0400 (EDT), John Baldwin wrote: > >>Could it be that my controller card only supports PIO mode 0 or >>something? My BIOS reports it as using mode 4, and I thought that BSD >>wouldn't >>rely on that anyway. > > That's the problem... Your VLB IDE controller doesn't support Ultra > DMA-33. You can try to find a newer VLB that does, but I've never seen > one, and VLB cards are hard to find new these days... Neither does -STABLE at the moment either, on my Pentium BSD is still only using PIO, yet with multi-block on it gets 12 Meg/sec but with multi-block off it gets 2 Meg/sec. The 486 gets 2 Meg/sec regardless of the multi-block setting, so I'm wondering if anyone knows if VLB or ISA controllers support block mode? > I'd buy a new AMD-K6 chip on a TX based motherboard, and use the 486 > only as a firewall. Or a DOS based serial console with logging. The 486 already is my gateway/firewall, I would just like to run other daemons on it as well since my other machine isn't always in BSD (I play games in '95 on rare occasion) and right now its major bottleneck is the speed that it accesses the hard drive at. - --- John Baldwin - -- jobaldwi@vt.edu -- jbaldwin@freedomnet.com -- ---- http://www.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ ---- "I waited for the Lord on high/I waited and He heard my cry." - Petra -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBNgCEIojYza302vYpAQHnRAL+PaHhfn00V/3iv/h4IKcUW1076MpyVoh4 77LCKwGI4OqdkD9S43Auh67Z2wHcicjq8Ot07eb+tQO2u3bG9/sMkgczbI5rdVpQ gmKIu4fVtEAEW5YAssOhC7RCiOmNEQAX =qqNU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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