Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:41:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New ATA stuff, questions and comment Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906231538430.86812-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906231215550.5710-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com>
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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Doug wrote:
> First a question, namely what is the current state of the ATA
> drivers in -current? Are they reliable (where "reliable" goes by -current
> terms obviously)? I finally am in a position to test them with a new
> workstation that has IDE disks, so I thought I'd give it a go.
For me, it's very reliable. It even supports Ultra DMA 2 mode! And of course,
I'm happy with the atapi-fd driver :) See:
ata-pci0: <AcerLabs Aladdin IDE controller> irq 0 at device 15.0 on pci0
ata-pci0: Busmastering DMA supported
ata0 at 0x01f0 irq 14 on ata-pci0
ata1 at 0x0170 irq 15 on ata-pci0
ta0: master: setting up UDMA2 mode on Aladdin chip OK
ad0: <ST36422A/3.04> ATA-4 disk at ata0 as master
ad0: 6103MB (12500460 sectors), 13228 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
ad0: piomode=4, dmamode=2, udmamode=2
ad0: 16 secs/int, 0 depth queue, DMA mode
ata1: master: setting up WDMA2 mode on Aladdin chip OK
ad1: <Maxtor 71626 AP/QA3C1D20> ATA-? disk at ata1 as master
ad1: 1554MB (3183264 sectors), 3158 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
ad1: piomode=4, dmamode=2, udmamode=-1
ad1: 16 secs/int, 0 depth queue, DMA mode
acd0: <NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:285/3.04> CDROM drive at ata0 as slave
acd0: drive speed 2067KB/sec, 128KB cache
acd0: supported read types: CD-R, CD-DA
acd0: Audio: play, 16 volume levels
acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray
acd0: Medium: no/blank disc inside, unlocked
afd0: <LS-120 COSM 02 UHD Floppy/0271C09T> rewriteable drive at ata1 as slave
afd0: 120MB (246528 sectors), 963 cyls, 8 heads, 32 S/T, 512 B/S
afd0: Medium: Unknown media (0x0)
>
> Also, I was trying to set up the CD player on this workstation and
> had a difficult time with the "atapicd" vs. "acd" stuff, so I finally just
> went back to the old w* stuff. Basically, LINT mentions atapicd0, but both
> devices.i386 and majors.i386, as well as /dev/MAKEDEV mention acd.
A device name isn't necessarily the same as a device node, you know.
>
> Any comments or insights are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug
> --
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