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Date:      Wed, 8 Jun 2005 02:03:11 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl>
To:        Samo =?iso-8859-2?Q?Jelov=B9ek?= <samo@jelovsek.net>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ATA DMA
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOC.4.61.0506080201200.8641@tea.blinkenlights.nl>
In-Reply-To: <1118173614.8378.2.camel@kishta.homeunix>
References:  <1118173614.8378.2.camel@kishta.homeunix>

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On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Samo [iso-8859-2] Jelovšek wrote:

> hello,
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 on Alpha 164SX with some 80gb ATA100 disk and
> i'm wondering is there is any option to set up ATA DMA that would my
> disk work faster..

The onboard ata really really sucks
last time I checked it did:
PIO: 10-12mb
UDMA: 8mb

With a disk that easily does 20-30mb.
The easiest speedup is to get a symbios
875 or 895 scsi card.

-- 
Sten Spans

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen - Anthem
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