Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:13:42 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Jen and Luke <isis@servtech.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EIDE drives Message-ID: <32E5E856.6FC2@barcode.co.il> References: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970121113911.24610G-100000@localhost>
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Doug White wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Jen and Luke wrote: > > > Hi I'm running 2.2-ALPHA and recently upgraded most of my computer, i > > was reading through the LINT kernel config file, and it says 'EIDE is > > not supported' . After lurking on the list, seeing people with 540M+ ide > > drives, i get the impression this is not the case. Can i actually use > > eide drives under FreeBSD ? and if so , someone should change that line > > in the LINT file ( all my hardware upgrade decisions were based on > > comments in the file :) > > There is no *explicit* support for these drives (ie, 32 bit access), but > they do work as regular IDE drives. There *is* support for 32bit access, as well as for multiblock transfers in the wdc driver. At least it does that for me (you need to enable it explicitly in the configuration file by setting the correct flags though). > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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