From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 26 12:55:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from crash.ab.videon.ca (crash.ab.videon.ca [206.75.216.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B95E15648 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:53:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cwasser@v-wave.com) Received: from area51 (area51.v-wave.com [24.108.26.39]) by crash.ab.videon.ca (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id NAA24481 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 13:53:38 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 13:55:21 -0700 X-Priority: 3 From: Chris Wasser Reply-To: cwasser@v-wave.com X-Mailer: MailWarrior 3 To: fordp@guide.chi.il.us Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: freebsd and ata-66 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Mailer-Version: v3.03 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Original message dated 11/26/99 1:48:27 PM --- > I have the same setup, With 3.2 you can expect for the Ultra-ATA66 > controller NOT to work for you. there is support for it in 4.0-CURRENT, > but as your drive should be compatible witht he Ultra ATA33 controller > also on the BP6 your best off using th3 ATA33 controller until such time > as we see a 4.0-RELEASE. > > I have used the ATA66 controller unde certain other operating systems, and > the performace difference is minimal. The preformance is noticable as well as the CPU overhead drop compared to ATA-33 :) As for 3.x supporting it, Soren is working on a solution I do believe. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message