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Date:      Thu, 24 Aug 2000 01:00:55 +0930
From:      Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au>
To:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATA66 support
Message-ID:  <39A3EE2F.89415A5D@camtech.net.au>
References:  <200008031744.TAA73057@freebsd.dk>

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Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Andreas Klemm wrote:
> > ad4: 39082MB <Maxtor 54098U8> [79406/16/63] at ata2-master using UDMA33
> 
> AHA! try swap that with a known good drive (ie non Maxtor/WD) if you can....

Are there plans to try to support this broken hardware ?

Maxtor seem to be violating ATAPI standards in that FreeBSD and Linux
cannot use many Maxtor drives at rated speed, however.....

Maxtor has some extremely fast drives that `work' in WinTel machines
faster than all other competitors using ATA66 (as of a month or so ago)
so it appears they are cutting corners on the standard (cheating) in
order to produce a very fast product.

Are there plans to accomodate their behavior ?

Do you have any contacts in Maxtor to help in this task ?

> 
> -Søren
> 
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