Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 19:06:52 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: separate udma66 controller possible, when only having udma33 bios Message-ID: <20000220190651.A27410@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
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Hi ! Some possibly dump questions from a SCSI user regarding EIDE. I want to buy the new Maxtor 40 GB EIDE drive, 7200 U/min for my FreeBSD system. My 4 2GB SCSI disks (IBM DORS 31260) are too small now and too loud for a home system. I have a TYAN Titan Pro board with 2 PPro 200. The last BIOS upgrade I did, made udma33 possible. http://www.tyan.com/support/html/bios_titan_pro.html TYN TITAN-PRO V5.01 5/8/98 V5.01 Award BIOS for all Titan Pro series motherboards. Includes a pci vga irq setup item and support for UDMA33 HDD, .... I think the drive would also run fine with udma33, or ??? If I want to get the most speed out of the new disk, I would need udma66 support. But how do I get udma66, if my mainbords BIOS only supports udma33 ??? Would I be able to run udma66, if I would buy a separate EIDE pci controller and disabling the EIDE controller on my mainboard ? Or is this completely BIOS dependend ??? Tyan itself offers currently no other BIOS upgrade for this board. If I would need a BIOS upgrade, is there another possibility to upgrade my BIOS ? Or do I need BIOS upgrades from my board manufacturer ? Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD Get new songs from our band: http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/64bits/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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