From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 5 16:34:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wireco.net (mental.wireco.net [206.107.119.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 709F037BB99 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 16:34:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hornback@wireco.net) Received: (qmail 17889 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2000 23:34:08 -0000 Received: from d23.johnson-city.tn.us.wireco.net (HELO challenger) (206.107.119.212) by mental.wireco.net with SMTP; 5 Aug 2000 23:34:08 -0000 Reply-To: From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "'Dan O'Connor'" Cc: Subject: RE: CMD 640 ATA controller !WARNING! Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 19:31:55 -0400 Message-ID: <000d01bfff35$57f29b10$d4776bce@challenger> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 In-Reply-To: <005201bfff0a$b4e7a8e0$029b140a@danco> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dan O'Connor > Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 2:27 PM > To: Richard Mahoney; freebsd-questions > Subject: Re: CMD 640 ATA controller !WARNING! > > >Under 3.4 the boot messages complained that my CMD 640 ATA > >controller was rubbish. For all that, 3.4 made concessions for > >substandard hardware. It seemed to include a workaround and my > >CD-ROM worked. > > > >I'm unhappy to say that this doesn't seem to be the case with 4.0. > > > >When I boot under 4.0 I get: > > > >atapci0: > possible> irq 14 at device 8.0 on pci0 > >atapci0: Busmastering DMA not supported > > > I had this same problem when I upgraded my old Dell > Pentium-90 to 4.0. Your > best bet is to replace your IDE controller with a add-in card. > > My recommendation is a Promise Technologies Ultra-33 card. > These are no > longer made, but you might be able to find one if you hunt > hard enough. It's > a PCI card that requires no drivers, supports Bus Mastering, > and works fine > with FreeBSD 4.x. > > Warning: Stay away from the Promise Ultra-66. Although it > supports faster > drives, it doesn't support ATAPI devices like CD-ROMs, CD-RW, > or ATAPI tape > drives (the Ultra-33 does, however). > > Another option would be one of the generic ISA multi-function > cards. These > generally have extra serial and/or parallel ports, plus an > IDE port. The one > I use in another machine (Vitex MP787) only has one IDE > interface, limiting > it to two drives (I have a 4GB IDE drive as master and a 40x > CD-ROM drive as > slave). Since it's an ISA card, it won't work in UDMA modes, > only PIO3 & > PIO4. Also, if you go this route, try to find a card with jumpers, not > Plug-n-Play, so you can set it up the way you want. (Since > even MS Windows > doesn't handle ISA PnP cards quite right, I try to avoid them like the > plague!) Another option would be another card from Promise. The EIDE Max or the EIDE Pro. I have used both of these, they're both ISA IDE Controllers, allowing up to 8.4 Gig drive sizes. The Pro is the same controller as the Max, but includes I/O ports. I've used Promise hardware for a long time now, and never had a bit of problem from any of it. Kind of the Adaptec of the IDE world. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message