From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 24 18:58:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 116DE37B404 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 18:58:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA84957; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:58:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:58:18 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: Lawrence Sica Cc: , Dmitry Morozovsky , , Dmitry Valdov , Bill Moran , Subject: Re: ATA driver feature request In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Lawrence Sica wrote: > > Yes, the way I've done the mode programming it is possible to have the > > two device run at different speeds (our competition cant do that). > > I didnt know that was possible, very cool :) Intel has been doing this for a while on their chipsets in Windows if you install the Intel Application Accelerator (a fancy name for their ATA driver package, once called the Intel UltraATA Driver before they renamed it). Definately a cool feature, but I try to keep the primary system drive on its own channel and stick the other stuff (usually just a CD-ROM drive and maybe a ZIP drive) on the second channel which alleviates the problem entirely. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, and ARM architectures under development - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message