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From: "Michael L. Squires" <mikes@copper.ucs.indiana.edu>
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Subject: Re: EIDE drives
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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 11:20:15 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199701231436.JAA00979@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Jan 23, 97 09:36:13 am
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> > 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.

Under MS Windows NT the same box (Gateway PPro 200 with a 2940UW/UW
SCSI drive) is perceptibly faster than the same CPU with a 
EIDE drive.