Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 15:49:53 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lmbench IDE anomaly Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960503154224.14758A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960502140330.31615A-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu>
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On Thu, 2 May 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 1996, Narvi wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > I have a strane feeling all Triton motherboards have the feature(?) as the > > IDE controller is part of the chipset. Or am I again remebering falsely? > > Perhaps not as Win95 tends to recognise it's there (but say that bus > > mastering is not supported). So are 486 motherboards based on the SiS > > chipset and most probably also several others. > > > > Narvi, I was referring to the new Triton II boards. Take a look at ^^^^^^ ? Read LoTR again. > http://www.tyan.com, they are offering drivers (for Win95) that do > bus-mastering for IDE. I guess the hardware solution is out. I will > have one of these boards myself shortly (whee!) but I don't run IDE, so I > won't get involved with that part of it. > It doesn't matter, whetever it is Triton II or not - it is not the only one, and driver's are also out for the others (for SCO with SiS chipset and perhaps also others, I don't know about BM - haven't tried). The trick is that there are several boards and chipsets out with PCI IDE busmasters but no FreeBSD drivers for them. Besides, I don't think the IDE parts of Triton/Triton II would be much different - it wouldn't make much sense. > ========================================================================== > Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 > > Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, > Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, > Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, > One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game > In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. > One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, > One Account to make them all and in the network bind them. > > > Sander
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