From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 21 8:20:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 336A215432 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 08:19:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA06331; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:19:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <199912211619.RAA06331@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Problems with the ATA-driver In-Reply-To: from Theo van Klaveren at "Dec 21, 1999 03:50:57 pm" To: havoc@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl (Theo van Klaveren) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:19:40 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote: > On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > > > Harddisks: Western Digital Caviar (2.0 GB), non-DMA and > > > Western Digital Caviar (2.5 GB), DMA-33. > > > Mainboard: Asus P5A-B Super7 > > > Chipset: ALi Aladdin V AGPset > > > > It probably because I relaxed the requirements for doing WDMA on disks > > that doesn't bother to tell whihc verson of the ATA spec they conform to. > > I think your case is the more seldom one, but I'm this close to > > blacklisting all WD/Maxtor drives, that would make life alot easier... > > Hmmm... what exactly does the 'blacklisting all WD/Maxtor drives' mean? > That I can't use the ATA driver, or that the timeout for these drives > is increased? It means they will not do DMA without user intervention... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message