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Subject: Re: lmbench IDE anomaly
To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler)
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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

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