From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 4 5:15:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-51.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E8C437B98D for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 05:15:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA02795; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 05:22:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200007041222.FAA02795@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Gerhard Sittig Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dump takes ages on SCSI. (several times faster on IDE) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 Jul 2000 19:38:34 +0200." <20000703193834.Q5945@speedy.gsinet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 05:22:36 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > The Problem with aha1542 (ISA busmaster capable controller) in > PCI boards is that it is located "at the end" of a long chain to > memory. Chances are, busmastering will not work at all behind > the PCI to ISA bridge since all the PCI devices have higher > priority and the ISA gadget never gets any access granted or at > least always too late. You're better off with a PCI controller. This is Just Not True. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the taks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message