Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:10:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: michaelc@tmbbwmc.bbn.hp.com (Michael Class) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New ATA stuff, questions and comment Message-ID: <199906250810.KAA29199@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPX.4.10.9906250846190.15921-100000@tmbbwmc.bbn.hp.com> from Michael Class at "Jun 25, 1999 9:23:51 am"
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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
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