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Date:      Tue, 25 Aug 1998 02:10:26 -0400
From:      john hood <cgull@owl.org>
To:        Joe Gleason <freebsd.list@bug.tasam.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UDMA Support
Message-ID:  <19980825021026.12093@owl.org>
In-Reply-To: <199808221929.TAA20855@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 07:29:03PM %2B0000
References:  <00f001bdcde3$7e14bb00$0171a1ce@bug.tasam.com> <199808221929.TAA20855@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 07:29:03PM +0000, Mike Smith wrote:
> > Does FreeBSD have Ultra DMA support or will it have it?
> 
> FreeBSD 3.0 supports IDE DMA.  SCSI disks will give better performance 
> in multiple-disk or high load scenarios.

-current supports DMA, but not Ultra DMA, which is faster and has
CRC error checking.  (I haven't got an Ultra DMA motherboard and
drive to code/debug on.)  This is not much of a problem yet, as
IDE drives cannot yet use all the bandwidth of standard DMA, but
it looks like it will be soon, the way IDE drives are going. :)

  --jh

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