From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 3 9:53: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picalon.gun.de (picalon.gun.de [192.109.159.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A11EF37B5B5 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 09:53:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by picalon.gun.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA17116; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 18:45:17 +0200 (MET DST) >Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA06617; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 18:37:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 18:37:21 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Soren Schmidt Cc: j mckitrick , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA66 support Message-ID: <20000803183721.A6597@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <20000802153027.A54330@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200008021729.TAA23716@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200008021729.TAA23716@freebsd.dk>; from sos@freebsd.dk on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:29:30PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE SMP X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:29:30PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems j mckitrick wrote: > > > > A friend of a friend asked me to find out how ATA66 support was coming > > along. Is it still necessary to disable DMA or PIO settings for it to work? > > ATA66 has been working for quite some time now. Beware that there are > some disks that claim to be able to do ATA66 but actually can't. > Beware of Maxtor and WD disks in this regard. I can recommend IBM > drives, they work very well... I can confirm, that for example the Tyan Titan Pro has chipsets builtin that doesn't grok ATA66. I met somebody who programmed BIOSes and such ... So now I know, why even buying a separate ATA PCI controller didn't work ... so in this case its not the harddisk ... -- Andreas Klemm Songs from our band........................http://people.freebsd.org/~andreas/ Powered by FreeBSD SMP...............http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html Please note: Apsfilter got a NEW HOME................http://www.apsfilter.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message