Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 20:49:56 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) 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 Subject: Re: building RAID systems Message-ID: <199707231849.UAA02813@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199707231829.DAA10986@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Jul 24, 97 03:59:21 am"
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In reply to Michael Smith who wrote:
> 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?
I don't think so, but its been a while since I read the docs, so I
could be wrong. Thats another good reason for going to DMA :)
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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