From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 19 9:21:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.RCousins.com (solomon.rcousins.com [205.179.174.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D44FC37BBD4 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:21:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rec@DotRocket.com) Received: from DotRocket.com ([216.198.68.50]) by www.RCousins.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA00816 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:21:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <394E482C.15799D58@DotRocket.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:19:56 -0700 From: Robert Cousins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Support for ATA PRO UDMA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've recently purchased IDE disks too large for my BIOS. (60 megs for $400 bucks is really attractive.) In looking around, I discovered this product: http://www.firmware.com/sales/atapro/ataudma.htm I find it attractive for several reasons: 1. It is cheap ($70) 2. It overcomes BIOS problems with large disks 3. It gives you 2 more IDE interfaces good to 66 MHz. (My motherboard only goes to 33 MHz so this is nice.) However, I don't know if FreeBSD will work with it. Specifically: 1. Does FreeBSD support up to 4 IDE interfaces (8 devices)? 2. Would a special driver be required or will the standard hardware driver run it? 3. Would I have to rebuild the kernel to add additional "ata" devices? I believe that if this board works, it will be of great value to the greater FreeBSD community. Disclaimer: I have't gotten the board, nor am I associated with the company in any way. For all I know, it doesn't work at all. I HAVE ordered one, and will reply to anyone who emails with my results. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message