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Date:      Tue, 13 Apr 1999 01:24:29 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Adam Dace <awd@kiwi.pyro.net>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Supported Socket 7 Motherboard UDMA Chipsets ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.00.9904130119460.9035-100000@kiwi.pyro.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990413121808.A74226@lemis.com>

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On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Monday, 12 April 1999 at 10:39:32 -0700, rick hamell wrote:

> "*at least*"?  I don't know any SCSI drives which will sustain 30
> MB/s.

Interesting to note that our big RAID 0+1 array at work only can sustain
approx 11MB/sec.  Looks to me like UDMA is catching up.  :)

> In fact, the maximum transfer rates between IDE and SCSI aren't that
> different.  What's different is the positioning time, which in a
> random-access mode is just as important.

Definitely food for thought.

> The chip sets for which FreeBSD has specific support are listed in the
> function ide_pci_probe, in /sys/pci/ide_pci.c.  The following is the
> listing from 4.0-CURRENT; you'll probably find that one or the other
> is missing in earlier versions.

I didn't even realize 4.0 was under development.  Doh!  I'll take another
dive through cvsweb.  Thanks for the list!

--Adam



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