Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 22:15:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew <hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com> To: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970805221049.11865B-100000@www2.shoppersnet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970805230145.18582A-100000@dot.ishiboo.com>
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On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Atipa wrote: > > > > > > Intel 430TX Chipset / PIIX3 Controller > > > > > built-in UltraDMA IDE (33MByte/sec) > > > > > support for SDRAM > > > > > built-in USB > > > > > > > > All of these either require no support, are already supported, or have been > > > > discussed above. > > > > > > I do not believe UltraDMA is supported. The PIIX3 is quite a bit > > > different than the PIIX2, with the RTC and USB built in. > > > > > > > UltraDMA is starting to get support. New drives by Quantum are now > > starting to have Ultra DMA/33. > > > The drives are out, but the driver is not yet supported under FreeBSD (to > the best of my knowlegde). IBM also has UDMA drives shipping. Yes, that's true. I don't think FreeBSD supports UDMA, but then again most Unix users still prefer to use SCSI drives over IDE. The price of SCSI drives is still somewhat of an issue though. IMHO SCSI is a much better Unix solution than IDE even with UDMA.
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