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 ... -- Andreas Klemm Songs from our band........................http://people.freebsd.org/~andreas/ Powered by FreeBSD SMP...............http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html Please note: Apsfilter got a NEW HOME................http://www.apsfilter.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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