Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 21:09:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Cc: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM-DJNA drives on FreeBSD Message-ID: <199907041909.VAA52179@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <xzpyagwutxf.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from Dag-Erling Smorgrav at "Jul 4, 1999 8:54:52 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> writes: > > Is that relevant for 3.2 as well as current? And by "disabling ultra > > DMA" did you mean "disabling UDMA66" or "disabling UDMA completely"? > > (You can permanently disable UDMA66 with a DOS utility available > > from IBM, and it will then act as a plain UDMA33 drive.) > > Depends on your motherboard. Try to just disable UDMA66 first. If that > doesn't help, or if you have a "known bad" chipset (e.g. AcerLabs > Aladdin), disable UDMA completely in the BIOS setup utility. BZZST! The Aladdin isn't bad, the support in the old wd based driver is :) I use a DJNA drive on an Aladdin board, with the ATA driver, and it works just dandy no matter how I set the BIOS (and I always get UDMA33 btw, the Alladin wont do any higher than that)... -SØren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199907041909.VAA52179>