From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 18 23:47:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA15790 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 23:47:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wired.ctech.ac.za (wired.ctech.ac.za [155.238.4.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA15772 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 23:46:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wired.ctech.ac.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wired.ctech.ac.za (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA12897; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 08:46:22 +0200 (SAT) Message-ID: <33F9413E.7DE14518@wired.ctech.ac.za> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 08:46:22 +0200 From: Jacques Hugo X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EIDE hard disk References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White wrote: > For the record, the IDE disk driver in FreeBSD isn't yet PIO optimized, > although a project is available that will run Mode 4 disks in Mode 4. Let > me know if you're interested and are good at making backups. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo PIO mode? That's Programmable IO??? Can you elaborate a bit more, please, Doug. I've got the same setup at home. -Jacques