Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:14:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: thyerm@camtech.net.au (Matthew Thyer) Cc: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm), jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org (j mckitrick), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA66 support Message-ID: <200008231614.SAA63996@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <39A3EE2F.89415A5D@camtech.net.au> from Matthew Thyer at "Aug 24, 2000 01:00:55 am"
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It seems Matthew Thyer wrote: > 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 ? If possible... > Maxtor seem to be violating ATAPI standards in that FreeBSD and Linux > cannot use many Maxtor drives at rated speed, however..... You mean ATA standards, I'm not sure thats the problem... > 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. Well, "work" is exactly the word to use, they work on *some* chipsets with *some* drivers, but they have problems there as well. Remember that most wintel boxes doesn't even use DMA... Besides it seems as if its our much more agressive usage thats the real problem, looks like firmware problems too me.... > Are there plans to accomodate their behavior ? As I've stated before, if somebody get me one of the problematic drives on my desk I'll do what I can.... > Do you have any contacts in Maxtor to help in this task ? Sortof, but they dont think they have any problems at all :) -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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