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Date:      Mon, 27 Oct 1997 17:00:29 -0100 (GMT)
From:      Remy NONNENMACHER <remy@synx.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        "David A. Allem" <bandit@aromatech.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ultra DMA
Message-ID:  <Pine.A32.3.91.971027164849.23272I-100000@rs1>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971026232606.12269P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Doug White wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, David A. Allem wrote:
> 
> > the hardware referred to as ultra dma or ultra ata, etc.. that supports
> > a transfer rate of 33mb/s, is this something that is easily supported
> > with free bsd, or is this not an option, i work at a computer store and
> > i have a lot of clients and also family wondering about this , if you
> > could please let me know i will be very appreciative
> 
> It is supported directly in 3.0-CURRENT; otherwise you get the standard
> IDE treatment.
>

Best say : supposed to be supported. 3.0 recognizes correctly IDE U-DMA 
chips but tests gave me half the perfs between the 3.0 and the 2.2.2 with 
same disk and same Hardware. Lack of chip exploitation ?, 3.0 disk 
handling diffs ? This would need some investigation. I would be happy to 
(humbly) offer some time to investigate this if some great chipset/disk 
driver writers can point me some lecture. 
 
All you *BSD* boys : THANKS FOR YOUR WORK !!.



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