From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 14:07:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5734716A420 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:07:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DA4643D46 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:07:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp212-204.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.212.204]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jAME7AP6065260 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:37:11 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Sean Bruno Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:36:49 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <1132629660.4202.3.camel@home-desk> <200511221449.16139.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <1132638281.5202.3.camel@home-desk> In-Reply-To: <1132638281.5202.3.camel@home-desk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1519345.4fIOolm1i4"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200511230037.04218.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0.05 () FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIA 8237 under FreeBSD 4.11 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:07:17 -0000 --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--