Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 11:02:42 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE or Ultra SCSI Message-ID: <19970531110242.NL08194@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970530121316.18861B-100000@lightning.tbe.net>; from Gary D. Margiotta on May 30, 1997 12:47:23 -0400 References: <199705301207.WAA15894@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970530121316.18861B-100000@lightning.tbe.net>
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As Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > Plus, if you are using FreeBSD, there is no support > for Enhanced IDE yet, so you are not getting the benefits of that. That's not fully correct. FreeBSD doesn't care about the various transfer modi, and it doesn't support DMA modi. However, it doesn't modify the transfer behaviour either, so if you initialize your drive to a fast PIO mode by the BIOS, FreeBSD will use it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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