From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 25 0:24:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B389914DCC for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:24:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelc@tmbbwmc.bbn.hp.com) Received: from hpbbse.bbn.hp.com (root@hpbbse.bbn.hp.com [15.136.26.26]) by palrel3.hp.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id AAA26112 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:24:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tmbbwmc.bbn.hp.com (michaelc@tmbbwmc.bbn.hp.com [15.138.27.161]) by hpbbse.bbn.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.7.3) id IAA11275 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 08:24:03 +0100 (MEZ) Received: from localhost (michaelc@localhost) by tmbbwmc.bbn.hp.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA16760 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:23:51 +0200 (METDST) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:23:51 +0200 (METDST) From: Michael Class To: 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. > I am using the new ATA-drivers for quite some time now. On a home-PC they work great. On my Laptop (Omnibook 5700) they only work if I change the code to not switch-on Generic DMA-Support. Basically I change the code in ata-dma.c::ata_dmainit at the very to NOT switch on generic DMA-mode even if the drive claims that it could do DMA. The Notebook has an "TOSHIBA MK2101MAN/B1.06 D" / piomode=4, dmamode=2, udmamode=1. The old wd-driver DMA did not work for this machine, but fortunately it was not switched on by default. This needs to be configurable before the the new ATA-drivers are made the default! Otherwise I am very happy with these drivers. Michael ___________________________________________________________________________ Michael Class E-Mail: michael_class@hp.com E-Business Solution Division Phone: +49 7031 14-3707 Fax: +49 7031 14-4196 ___________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message