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Date:      Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:02:40 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Promise ATA attaches UDMA66, but not UDMA33
Message-ID:  <200109040703.f8473fY02926@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <15252.9563.895072.420187@trooper.velocet.net> "from David Gilbert at Sep 3, 2001 08:50:35 pm"

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It seems David Gilbert wrote:
> I've got a promise ATA-66 controller.  According to it's bios screen,
> the hard drives attached to it are UDMA-4 and the two CD-type devices
> are UDMA-2.  All four devices are attached with ATA-66 cabling.  I
> also have "hw.ata.atapi_dma=1" in loader.conf.
> 
> I get the following probe:
> 
> ad6: 39266MB <IBM-DTLA-305040> [79780/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA66
> ad7: 39266MB <IBM-DTLA-305040> [79780/16/63] at ata3-slave UDMA66
> acd0: DVD-ROM <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1502> at ata2-master using PIO4
> acd1: CD-RW <CD-W512EB> at ata2-slave using PIO4
> 
> Is the driver possibly not recognising the UDMA2 state from the
> controller?

The Promise controllers doesn't support ATAPI DMA, or at least
the older ones didn't, and some require special code, however
the newer ones (TX2) should support it. I have this on my list
for the newer Promises, watch -current for when it hits the tree...


-Søren

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