From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 4 12: 9:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA5015046 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 12:09:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA52179; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 21:09:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <199907041909.VAA52179@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: IBM-DJNA drives on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: from Dag-Erling Smorgrav at "Jul 4, 1999 8:54:52 pm" To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 21:09:18 +0200 (CEST) Cc: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Richard Tobin 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