Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 11:52:39 -0600 From: "Richard Seaman Jr." <dick@tar.com> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SiS ata Driver (was Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!) Message-ID: <19991211115239.A339@tar.com> In-Reply-To: <199912091028.LAA16181@freebsd.dk> References: <199912090751.IAA79179@freebsd.dk> <199912091028.LAA16181@freebsd.dk>
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On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 11:28:20AM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Soren Schmidt wrote:
> > It seems Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 03:02:37PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> > >
> > > > OK, you asked for it, following is a patch to support the
> > > > sis 5591 chipset. Remember this is done blindfolded, I
> > > > have no HW to test on, but you guys do :)
> > >
> > > Seems to work. I'll let it run for a few days, but I'd guess it
> > > is fine.
> >
> > Great, I have a sligthly modified version that I'd like you to test,
> > but it'll have to wait until I get home to my dev box.
> > Thanks for testing it out!!
>
> Can I have you try this patch instead, it is much simpler, and
> should give the same results if I read the SiS specs right..
Tried it. Same result as the last patch. Seems to work fine. If you
want the dmesg, let me know (same as last time, which I sent you). No
problems over the last 2 days with the ata driver.
FYI: wd vs ata on AMD 266 with SiS 5591 and IBM-DJNA-371800:
-------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
WD 512 9204 95.1 13615 68.5 5741 34.0 10051 92.2 15282 45.4 135.9 3.6
ATA 512 9446 95.2 13723 72.1 4430 25.4 10187 92.0 14836 42.9 132.0 3.5
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