Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:56:10 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> Cc: Jen and Luke <isis@servtech.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EIDE drives Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970122154943.7369C-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <32E5E856.6FC2@barcode.co.il>
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Nadav Eiron wrote: > 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). That's right -- I run my disks on multi-block mode, I should know that. Here I go trying to understand the difference between EIDE and IDE and screw it up massively. :-) Will someone please fill me in? I don't consider a difference between the two. 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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