Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:03:29 -0700 From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: prospects for DMA support for SiS962(L) Southbridge? Message-ID: <p06001a04bb8b065c1359@[192.168.254.205]> In-Reply-To: <p05200f20bb14f7371af0@[192.168.254.205]> References: <p05200f20bb14f7371af0@[192.168.254.205]>
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With FreeBSD 4.9 on the horizon, I thought I might bring this up again... At 10:01 AM -0700 6/17/03, Rich Morin wrote: >I recently upgraded my motherboard and CPU, as: > > 478 pin Celeron; 2.1 GHz > 512 MB DDR DIMM (2 ea.) > SiS962(L) Southbridge > >I then found that I couldn't boot the (FreeBSD 4.7) system, getting: > > ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 resetting > ata0: resetting devices > >After a bunch of Googling and some discussions on freebsd-questions, >I decided to change line 90 of /usr/src/sys/dev/ataata-disk.c to: > > static int ata_dma = 0; > >This works, but I suspect that it is slowing down my disk I/O quite a >bit. So, I would like to know the prospects for this controller being >supported in FreeBSD any time soon. -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com - Canta Forda Computer Laboratory http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series
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