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Date:      Thu, 3 Aug 2000 18:37:21 +0200
From:      Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
To:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
Cc:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATA66 support
Message-ID:  <20000803183721.A6597@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
In-Reply-To: <200008021729.TAA23716@freebsd.dk>; from sos@freebsd.dk on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:29:30PM %2B0200
References:  <20000802153027.A54330@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200008021729.TAA23716@freebsd.dk>

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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.

I met somebody who programmed BIOSes and such ...

So now I know, why even buying a separate ATA PCI controller didn't
work ... so in this case its not the harddisk ...

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