Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 23:18:21 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, terry@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu Subject: Re: WD driver serendipity Message-ID: <199506081318.XAA26099@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>at least 10% on my 486DX-40 system. Thanks for the great work! If 32-bit >and multi-block transfers don't cause problems, I hope they will be enabled >by default in 2.1 since I suspect not everyone is aware of them. Has They do cause problems. >multi-block transfer been available on ST506 disk controllers all along? >If so, has it taken that long (after IDE disks were introduced) for the BIOS >manufacturers to support this capability? I think it's mainly an ESDI/IDE feature. My 1990-1992 ESDI drives reported that they didn't supporte it. Bruce
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