From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 14:31:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-56-129.knology.net [24.214.56.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE4C737B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:31:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0OMV6T05096; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:31:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:31:06 -0600 From: David Kelly To: David Huff Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA/66 support Message-ID: <20010124163106.A5070@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <20010124154739.P18198@armadillo.itg.ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010124154739.P18198@armadillo.itg.ti.com>; from david@ti.com on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:47:39PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:47:39PM -0600, David Huff wrote: > I'm considering building an AMD Athlon or Duron PC with a motherboard based > on VIA's KT133 chipset. This incls VIA's 686A South Bridge chip which provides > ATA/66 support. Will FreeBSD 4.x support my ATA disks on this motherboard ? It should. And most likely will. This is a snippet from dmesg on an A7V w/ 800 MHz Athlon. Notice it knows to do UDMA100 on the onboard Promise controller when the disc drive supports it. Then the other is the CD-RW drive on the MB's VIA ATA-66 chipset. ad4: 43967MB [89331/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100 acd0: CD-RW at ata1-slave using PIO4 -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message