From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 23 11:30:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA05465 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:30:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA05459 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id DAA10986; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 03:59:22 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707231829.DAA10986@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: building RAID systems In-Reply-To: <199707231824.UAA24871@sos.freebsd.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Jul 23, 97 08:24:28 pm" To: sos@sos.freebsd.dk (Søren Schmidt) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 03:59:21 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Søren Schmidt stands accused of saying: > > > > This is very very true. When I had blown my personal budget buying P6 > > bits I resigned myself to the 3GB IBM DAQA 33240. I haven't been > > disappointed. > > Well, I have two 4G EIDE Maxtors on my P6 :), when I get the bus master > DMA going, it'll be a tough bunch to beat... Swine! Actually, speaking of IDE on P6en, it has been mentioned that P6's do PIO very poorly. Is it possible to memory-map the IDE I/O registers in the PIIX chip? -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[