Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 10:03:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr> Cc: "F. Heinrichmeyer" <fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de>, "freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Parallel Port Zip Drive works when EPP-Mode is choosen in Bios Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001221002240.25770-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20000122090548.17844@armor.free.fr>
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Nicolas Souchu wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 12:26:08PM +0100, F. Heinrichmeyer wrote: > > > > > >Subject says all! This evening i will try a patch for the ata driver so > >maybe all my > >hardware at home will work again with current when certain patches are > >applied. > > Nice. The newbus architecture introduces overhead in I/O and old chipsets > (or old compatible modes) do not always support it. > > Your drive runs really faster too, doesn't it? Have you measured the overhead? I think it should be trivial compared to the effort of using inb/outb to poll a port. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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