Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:41:31 -0800 From: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net> To: John Wilson <jmw_ymail@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backport of ServerWorks ATA to 4-Stable? Message-ID: <9B364FFC-62E7-11D7-99F8-000A959CEE6A@pursued-with.net> In-Reply-To: <20030330191736.4538.qmail@web41810.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sunday, Mar 30, 2003, at 11:17 US/Pacific, John Wilson wrote: > Hello all. > > I was wondering if there would be a backport of the > ServerWorks GC chipset (CSB6 South bridge) to > 4-Stable. I am only able to obtain "BIOSDMA" support > on my HD's and basic "PIO" support of my CD-RW. I thought that was the optimum configuration. (I have ServerWorks in my Dell 600SC.) My understanding of the problem with the ServerWorks chipset was the inability to recognize slave drives; I still have this problem but have just put the server together so have not worked on it much yet. > I played around with 5.0-Current on this machine and > by utilizing 'atacontrol', I was able to get DMA mode > transfers on all of the installed media. There were > also no stability issues running in this mode either > under 5-Current What were your atacontrol settings, and how did you differentiate the results (dmesg, sysctl)? FWIW, my drive recognition problem exists in 5.0 and 4.7-Stable. I'll forward separately to you a message I received a couple of weeks ago on this or a related issue. KeS
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