Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 14:06:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lmbench IDE anomaly Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960502140330.31615A-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960502205819.13276C-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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On Thu, 2 May 1996, Narvi wrote: > > Jonathan, I was looking at the new Tyan MB's, they say that they use IDE > > bus mastering, and claim a major speed increase. I am not sure (I am a > > SCSI bigot myself) but maybe yours claims of SCSI dominanace over > > IDE won't be so automatically true shortly. > > I have a strane feeling all Triton motherboards have the feature(?) as the > IDE controller is part of the chipset. Or am I again remebering falsely? > Perhaps not as Win95 tends to recognise it's there (but say that bus > mastering is not supported). So are 486 motherboards based on the SiS > chipset and most probably also several others. > Narvi, I was referring to the new Triton II boards. Take a look at http://www.tyan.com, they are offering drivers (for Win95) that do bus-mastering for IDE. I guess the hardware solution is out. I will have one of these boards myself shortly (whee!) but I don't run IDE, so I won't get involved with that part of it. ========================================================================== Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, One Account to make them all and in the network bind them.
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