Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 09:36:13 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: nadav@barcode.co.il (Nadav Eiron) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, isis@servtech.com, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: EIDE drives Message-ID: <199701231436.JAA00979@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <32E71A1C.2EAD@barcode.co.il> from "Nadav Eiron" at Jan 23, 97 09:58:20 am
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> I guess the major difference is the support of the faster transfer rates > (PIO mode 3 and 4 and the such). I remember some basic paper about the > evolution of IDE someplace. It might have been Seagate's web site or > something, but I don't remember. There was also an article in Byte about > a year ago on the subject. > > I don't think FreeBSD's wdc driver uses these faster moeds, but I > haven't checked (IDE sucks anyhow). > FreeBSD will use the modes that the bios sets up. In both my ASUS and SuperMicro MB's that means that FreeBSD can use modes 2,3,4 as available. John dyson@freebsd.org
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