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Date:      Mon, 6 Dec 1999 06:46:28 -0600
From:      "Richard Seaman, Jr." <dick@tar.com>
To:        Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATA driver as the default
Message-ID:  <19991206064628.G44207@tar.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991206121916.A17569@myhakas.matti.ee>
References:  <19991205193638.B74670@dragon.nuxi.com> <19991206121916.A17569@myhakas.matti.ee>

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On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 12:19:16PM +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote:

> It doesn't know about SiS 5591 PCI IDE controller, the wdc controller
> knows. I'm speaking about boot messages, nothing else. Furthermore the
> wdc driver sets up UDMA mode on my UDMA capable disks, ata driver
> doesn't. It claims that busmastering DMA is supported and sets up WDMA2
> mode instead, I think it's normal as it currently doesn't know about
> 5591. The WDMA2 isn't really that bad and otherwise I'm using ata driver
> quite happily. Just FYI.

The one time I tried ata with my SiS 5591 board I got PIO, no
DMA at all.  With wd I get UDMA.  This was about 2-3 weeks ago.

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