Date: 24 Jun 1999 15:31:26 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Doug@gorean.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New ATA stuff, questions and comment Message-ID: <xzpaetpwwr5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Brian F. Feldman"'s message of "Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:29:56 -0400 (EDT)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906232028450.91605-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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"Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org> writes: > I didn't mean that mode 2 was special, but Ultra DMA mode 2 in its entirety being > very nice :) The old driver never did any form of DMA for me, much less UDMA, so > I'm very glad to have the ATA drivers. controller wdc0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14 flags 0xa0ffa0ff Will enable DMA mode with the old driver. It doesn't support UDMA on all chipsets (e.g. ALI), and in some cases may give very poor performance when using UDMA disks, but normal DMA mode should work. If you have UDMA disks but can't get UDMA to work, just disable UDMA in the BIOS setup utility and it will use normal DMA instead. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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