Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 08:46:39 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, koshy@india.hp.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: lmbench IDE anomaly Message-ID: <199605022316.IAA01156@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199605021848.LAA16564@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at May 2, 96 11:48:55 am
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Jonathan M. Bresler stands accused of saying: > > > > Jonathan, I was looking at the new Tyan MB's, they say that they use IDE > > bus mastering, and claim a major speed increase. I am not sure (I am a > > SCSI bigot myself) but maybe yours claims of SCSI dominanace over > > IDE won't be so automatically true shortly. > > cool. that would be great. losts of people dont want > scsi for one reason or another, so if ide gets faster > that all for the better ;) > > anyone got any "/usr/bin/time make world" restuls for one of > these boards? You don't understand. The boards _support_ IDE busmastering, just like every other Triton board on the market. But nobody uses it, AFAIK. There's support for the DMA controller in -current, all it requires is someone to wade into the 'wd' driver and add the required code to _use_ it. > Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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