From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 25 1:12:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91FE114D33 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 01:12:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA29199; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:10:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <199906250810.KAA29199@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: New ATA stuff, questions and comment In-Reply-To: from Michael Class at "Jun 25, 1999 9:23:51 am" To: michaelc@tmbbwmc.bbn.hp.com (Michael Class) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:10:56 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Michael Class wrote: > > 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. > > > > I am using the new ATA-drivers for quite some time now. On a home-PC > they work great. On my Laptop (Omnibook 5700) they only work if I > change the code to not switch-on Generic DMA-Support. Basically I > change the code in ata-dma.c::ata_dmainit at the very to NOT switch > on generic DMA-mode even if the drive claims that it could do DMA. > The Notebook has an > "TOSHIBA MK2101MAN/B1.06 D" / piomode=4, dmamode=2, udmamode=1. > > The old wd-driver DMA did not work for this machine, but fortunately > it was not switched on by default. This needs to be configurable before > the the new ATA-drivers are made the default! That an area that I havn't quite decided on yet, but I'm aware of the potential problems (in fact I chose the default to find out how severe a problem this might be). > Otherwise I am very happy with these drivers. Thanks! -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message