Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:06:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE and ASUS P/I-P6NP5 Message-ID: <199609110906.LAA27764@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199609110905.LAA08284@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Sep 11, 96 11:05:42 am
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In reply to Christoph Kukulies who wrote:
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>
> The Pentium Pro ASUS P/I-P6NP5 board claims to support
> onboard IDE (bus master) at 17 MB/s in PIO mode and 22MB/s in
> DMA mode.
Sounds about right..
> How useful is this under FreeBSD-current? Does the IDE driver support
> this? Are there any IDE disk drives allowing for transfer rates
> in the range of those achieved by SCSI drives? Would that rule out
> SCSI as the choice when you want to have really fast disk access?
Hmm, I still think that SCSI would be best in highdemand situations,
however it should be possible with some pretty good figures using
EIDE/ATA drives.
And no our current ide (more wdc) driver has no support for
this, that situation could change though given the right
circumstances.....
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time.
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