Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:36:49 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIA 8237 under FreeBSD 4.11 Message-ID: <200511230037.04218.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1132638281.5202.3.camel@home-desk> References: <1132629660.4202.3.camel@home-desk> <200511221449.16139.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <1132638281.5202.3.camel@home-desk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--nextPart1519345.4fIOolm1i4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:14, Sean Bruno wrote: > > Or you could try staying with PATA drives, but it's a losing battle - y= ou > > will be hard pressed to find a new PC for which the devices are properly > > supported. (eg stuff like onboard ethernet) > > /me groans...patches eh? > > I'm not a BSD guy by trade...Could you tell me who Doug B is? and point > me to the "patches" ... I want to at least see if my application(which > is seriously I/O bound) can be assisted by increasing the speed of the > drive's access. SCSI is just too expensive for the stuff I want to do. WHoops it was Doug Ambrisko, not Doug Barton. Look here http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/ata/ I'm pretty sure those patches are for 4.x.. > P.S. But, if all else fails, FreeBSD 6 looks like the direction I need > to go anyway. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1519345.4fIOolm1i4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDgyYI5ZPcIHs/zowRAuWHAJ0e8fHnywi3/LFY2k6ZFrwgtYD+BQCgjyHt Y1xw4BJzDBjy2o29NDt7wRU= =gPRN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1519345.4fIOolm1i4--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200511230037.04218.doconnor>