From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 6 4:46:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from test.tar.com (test.tar.com [204.95.187.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F6E614FB0; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 04:46:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dick@test.tar.com) Received: (from dick@localhost) by test.tar.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA01569; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 06:46:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dick) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 06:46:28 -0600 From: "Richard Seaman, Jr." To: Vallo Kallaste Cc: "David O'Brien" , sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA driver as the default Message-ID: <19991206064628.G44207@tar.com> References: <19991205193638.B74670@dragon.nuxi.com> <19991206121916.A17569@myhakas.matti.ee> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <19991206121916.A17569@myhakas.matti.ee> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 12:19:16PM +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > It doesn't know about SiS 5591 PCI IDE controller, the wdc controller > knows. I'm speaking about boot messages, nothing else. Furthermore the > wdc driver sets up UDMA mode on my UDMA capable disks, ata driver > doesn't. It claims that busmastering DMA is supported and sets up WDMA2 > mode instead, I think it's normal as it currently doesn't know about > 5591. The WDMA2 isn't really that bad and otherwise I'm using ata driver > quite happily. Just FYI. The one time I tried ata with my SiS 5591 board I got PIO, no DMA at all. With wd I get UDMA. This was about 2-3 weeks ago. -- Richard Seaman, Jr. email: dick@tar.com 5182 N. Maple Lane phone: 262-367-5450 Chenequa WI 53058 fax: 262-367-5852 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message