From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 4 15:26:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB20C14FB3 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:26:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA62902; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 18:26:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 18:26:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Richard Tobin , phk@critter.freebsd.dk, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IBM-DJNA drives on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 4 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Richard Tobin 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 > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message