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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Message-Id: <199701231436.JAA00979@dyson.iquest.net>
Subject: Re: EIDE drives
To: nadav@barcode.co.il (Nadav Eiron)
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 09:36:13 -0500 (EST)
Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, isis@servtech.com, questions@FreeBSD.org
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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