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Date:      22 Dec 1999 03:10:45 -0500
From:      Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: One drive much slower than another
Message-ID:  <874sdbbdkq.fsf@main.wgaf.net>
In-Reply-To: Martin Welk's message of "Wed, 22 Dec 1999 03:30:56 %2B0100"
References:  <87vh5s59yk.fsf@main.wgaf.net> <385FE07F.5205DAF7@3-cities.com> <87r9gg59ig.fsf@main.wgaf.net> <19991222033055.A33335@theatre.sax.de>

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Martin Welk <mw@theatre.sax.de> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 03:22:47PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> 
> > At boot time I see in the table that the BIOS prints out, that both
> > drives are recognized as "LBA, Mode 4".
> 
> Are you sure that your mainboard supports PIO mode 4 on both IDE channels
> and not only the first one? I remember there were boards that recognize
> the highest possible PIO mode well, but cannot use it due to chipset
> limitations. Perhaps I'm wrong, I'm not deep into IDE stuff :-)

I'm not sure, but the two drives are both on two different
controllers. They are also *only* drives on both controllers.

-- 
Arcady Genkin                                http://wgaf.dyndns.org
"'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who
loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)


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