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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
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Subject: Re: EIDE drives
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Nadav Eiron wrote:

> Doug White wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Jen and Luke wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi I'm running 2.2-ALPHA and recently upgraded most of my computer, i
> > > was reading through the LINT kernel config file, and it says 'EIDE is
> > > not supported' . After lurking on the list, seeing people with 540M+ ide
> > > drives, i get the impression this is not the case. Can i actually use
> > > eide drives under FreeBSD ? and if so , someone should change that line
> > > in the LINT file ( all my hardware upgrade decisions were based on
> > > comments in the file :)
> > 
> > There is no *explicit* support for these drives (ie, 32 bit access), but
> > they do work as regular IDE drives.
> 
> There *is* support for 32bit access, as well as for multiblock transfers
> in the wdc driver. At least it does that for me (you need to enable it
> explicitly in the configuration file by setting the correct flags
> though).

That's right -- I run my disks on multi-block mode, I should know that.

Here I go trying to understand the difference between EIDE and IDE and
screw it up massively.  :-)  Will someone please fill me in?  I don't
consider a difference between the two.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major