Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 10:07:15 -0400 From: Chad Ziccardi <zicc@bellatlantic.net> To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Message-ID: <3944EE93.69F8850C@bellatlantic.net> References: <00060810421100.08183@ced.0418.com> <39406DE6.701366F3@bellatlantic.net> <20000612130834.I27618@lucifer.bart.nl>
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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > > -On [20000609 06:10], Chad Ziccardi (zicc@bellatlantic.net) wrote: > >FreeBSD <admin@ced.0418.com> wrote: > >> > >> I have been a unix user for a long time now and wondering if you could maybe > >> give me some information. I am running a P500 1Gram and a > >> IBM deskstar 7200rpm with uldra dma 66. The Unix 4.0 releases only works with > >> uldra dma 33 disks. Soon "www.bredbandsbolaget.se" will offer me a high speed > >> connection at 10Mbps to be started then 100Mbps then 1000Mbps. The first think > >> i need to know is why FreeBSD isent supporting udma 66 or udma 100. > > My deskstar works perfectly with the ATA driver using UDMA4 mode > [ATA/66]. ata(4) will tell you what controllers are supported and at > what speeds. You might want to upgrade to 4.0-STABLE because Soren > committed some fixes in 4.0-S this weekend. I as well have perfectly behaving 4.0 & 4.0-S machines running ata/66. The origional poster was the one having issues. > >FreeBSD 4.0 has ata/66 support. > > > >I think SUSE linux was the first OS/Distro to support ata/100, tho I don't > >know of any drives/ or motherboards that support this. Having your ata/66 > >drive it can't run at ata/100 anyways, so that's not a concern. > > We would've had it this weekend as well if Soren got his stuff on time. > Instead it will probably be in the tree this week. And note that unlike > our Linux brethren I don't experience lock-ups with my ATA driver. > -- I've never had problems with either really, tho I had only used ata/66 with RH for a few weeks. Never the less ata/100 isn't a big concern with me for a long time, considering what I've read on the lists, about most -drives- aren't fully supporting the ata/66 corretly. --Chad Ziccardi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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