Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 18:56:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Cc: jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org (j mckitrick), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA66 support Message-ID: <200008031656.SAA60523@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20000803183721.A6597@titan.klemm.gtn.com> from Andreas Klemm at "Aug 3, 2000 06:37:21 pm"
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It seems Andreas Klemm wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:29:30PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems j mckitrick wrote: > > > > > > A friend of a friend asked me to find out how ATA66 support was coming > > > along. Is it still necessary to disable DMA or PIO settings for it to work? > > > > ATA66 has been working for quite some time now. Beware that there are > > some disks that claim to be able to do ATA66 but actually can't. > > Beware of Maxtor and WD disks in this regard. I can recommend IBM > > drives, they work very well... > > I can confirm, that for example the Tyan Titan Pro has chipsets > builtin that doesn't grok ATA66. Ehm, you mean because the HW design on the board is broken, or because the chip hasn't ATA66 support ? I the first case there is nothing we can do about it, in the second case we will utilize what the chip can... > I met somebody who programmed BIOSes and such ... We dont use the BIOS for ATA DMA.... What do you mean with the above statement ? > So now I know, why even buying a separate ATA PCI controller didn't > work ... so in this case its not the harddisk ... ???? The motherboard has to be severely broken if a PCI controller wont work... What HW are we talking about here ? -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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