From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 18:38:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from giroc.albury.net.au (giroc.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B197C37B4CF for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 18:38:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by giroc.albury.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA23136; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:38:16 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:38:16 +1100 From: Nick Slager To: Erich Jenkins Cc: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ultra 100 hard drive support Message-ID: <20001018123816.B20513@albury.net.au> References: <8825697C.000ACC53.00@notes.uswc.uswest.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <8825697C.000ACC53.00@notes.uswc.uswest.com>; from emjenki@uswest.com on Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 07:57:22PM -0500 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Erich Jenkins (emjenki@uswest.com): > I would like to know if the current Stable release of FreeBSD supports > the Ultra100 hard drive interface? I will be installing it on a set of > three servers for 3D modeling and topological analysis soon and need > very fast hard drive access, limited only to the capability of the > systems it is being installed on. 4.1.1-RELEASE and later support ATA-100 controllers. If you really need a fast system, though, I'd go for SCSI. Remember IDE still depends on the host CPU for a lot of work. Nick -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message