Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 0:16:20 +0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@gns.com.br> To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: IDE and DMA Message-ID: <9609112116.AA0227@DANIEL.sobral> In-Reply-To: <199609111828.LAA20070@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-hackers-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Sep 11 96 11:28 am
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> From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> > Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:26:00 -0700 (MST) > Subject: Re: IDE and ASUS P/I-P6NP5 > > > The Pentium Pro ASUS P/I-P6NP5 board claims to support > > onboard IDE (bus master) at 17 MB/s in PIO mode and 22MB/s in > > DMA mode. > > > > How useful is this under FreeBSD-current? Does the IDE driver support > > this? Are there any IDE disk drives allowing for transfer rates > > DMA mode isn't supported AFAIK. > > I think the problem is still that it is impossible to reliably detect > support for the mode without crashing older (WD1007, etc.?) hardware. option??? Not meant as a criticism, nor as a request. I would like to know how easy/difficult it would be to add this as an "option" in the config, and what would be the problems in doing this. Also, please define "crash" in more technical terms. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@gns.com.br e8917523@linf.unb.br
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