From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 15 13:41:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA05752 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 13:41:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA05546 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 13:40:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA25098; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 13:40:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 13:40:43 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Umer Farooq cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA HD's In-Reply-To: <199803151409.HAA09921@dezine.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Umer Farooq wrote: > I was wondering if ATA/DMA hard drives are supported by BSD. in 2.2.x, UltraDMA isn't supported specifically, so you get no performance improvement. Your disk will be supported as a generic IDE drive. In 3.0-CURRENT, UltraDMA is supported, but you have to run a habitually unstable version of FreeBSD. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message