From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 23 11:27: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9812D37B422 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:26:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13RfEj-000Jcs-00; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:26:53 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA42920; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:26:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:26:51 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Soren Schmidt Cc: Matthew Thyer , Andreas Klemm , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA66 support Message-ID: <20000823192651.B42818@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <39A3EE2F.89415A5D@camtech.net.au> <200008231614.SAA63996@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200008231614.SAA63996@freebsd.dk>; from sos@freebsd.dk on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 06:14:46PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 06:14:46PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: | 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... really? why is that? and why include the feature if it is not used by the biggest segment of the market? | Besides it seems as if its our much more agressive usage thats the | real problem, looks like firmware problems too me.... how is bsd more aggressive (other than the obvious buildworld load)? maybe we should go easier on the hardware for real-world compatibility and reliability reasons? jcm -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message