From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 23 11:58: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E600F37B422 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:58:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA02869; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:56:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <200008231856.UAA02869@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: ATA66 support In-Reply-To: <20000823192651.B42818@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> from j mckitrick at "Aug 23, 2000 07:26:51 pm" To: jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org (j mckitrick) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:56:36 +0200 (CEST) Cc: thyerm@camtech.net.au (Matthew Thyer), andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm), 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 j mckitrick wrote: > 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? Marketing hype ? > | 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? Running multiple processes, multiple users gives you another use pattern as a wintel box used for gaming.... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message