From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 23 12:41:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8220B15113 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:41:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA86948; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:41:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:41:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Doug Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New ATA stuff, questions and comment In-Reply-To: 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 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 I'd give it a go. 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: ata-pci0: irq 0 at device 15.0 on pci0 ata-pci0: Busmastering DMA supported ata0 at 0x01f0 irq 14 on ata-pci0 ata1 at 0x0170 irq 15 on ata-pci0 ta0: master: setting up UDMA2 mode on Aladdin chip OK ad0: ATA-4 disk at ata0 as master ad0: 6103MB (12500460 sectors), 13228 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ad0: piomode=4, dmamode=2, udmamode=2 ad0: 16 secs/int, 0 depth queue, DMA mode ata1: master: setting up WDMA2 mode on Aladdin chip OK ad1: ATA-? disk at ata1 as master ad1: 1554MB (3183264 sectors), 3158 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ad1: piomode=4, dmamode=2, udmamode=-1 ad1: 16 secs/int, 0 depth queue, DMA mode acd0: CDROM drive at ata0 as slave acd0: drive speed 2067KB/sec, 128KB cache acd0: supported read types: CD-R, CD-DA acd0: Audio: play, 16 volume levels acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray acd0: Medium: no/blank disc inside, unlocked afd0: rewriteable drive at ata1 as slave afd0: 120MB (246528 sectors), 963 cyls, 8 heads, 32 S/T, 512 B/S afd0: Medium: Unknown media (0x0) > > Also, I was trying to set up the CD player on this workstation and > had a difficult time with the "atapicd" vs. "acd" stuff, so I finally just > went back to the old w* stuff. Basically, LINT mentions atapicd0, but both > devices.i386 and majors.i386, as well as /dev/MAKEDEV mention acd. A device name isn't necessarily the same as a device node, you know. > > Any comments or insights are welcome. > > Thanks, > > Doug > -- > On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only > nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter > what it does. > -- Will Rogers > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message