Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 18:26:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IBM-DJNA drives on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907041824390.62755-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <xzpyagwutxf.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 4 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> writes:
> > Is that relevant for 3.2 as well as current? And by "disabling ultra
> > DMA" did you mean "disabling UDMA66" or "disabling UDMA completely"?
> > (You can permanently disable UDMA66 with a DOS utility available
> > from IBM, and it will then act as a plain UDMA33 drive.)
>
> Depends on your motherboard. Try to just disable UDMA66 first. If that
> doesn't help, or if you have a "known bad" chipset (e.g. AcerLabs
> Aladdin), disable UDMA completely in the BIOS setup utility.
What do you mean, "known bad" ALi? I've had this mobo since the beginning
of the year or so, and it's given me no trouble. Ultra DMA always worked
right with Soren's ATA drivers. The only problem is that UDMA can't be
disabled in the BIOS, but that's due more to the BIOS brand.
>
> DES
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