Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:51:59 +0100 (CET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: cracauer@cons.org (Martin Cracauer) Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, grog@lemis.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI vs. DMA33.. Message-ID: <199811121252.NAA00697@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <19981112132110.B16085@cons.org> from Martin Cracauer at "Nov 12, 1998 1:21:10 pm"
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It seems Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > You didn't read what I wrote. I am aware of these issue and have 4 > > > drives, 4 channels on two cards. That it doesn't work because the two > > > channels on each Promise card block each other is a different matter > > > that was not foreseeable. > > > > I just checked here, I have no problems using both channels at once, > > do you have the BIOS enabled ?? If not you wont be running your > > drives at full specs... > > I don't have the BIOS installed, because I boot from a SCSI disk :-( And? that should be a problem, I dont boot on those either (yet) > I thought it can't be that bad because I'm much faster than the normal > DMA stuff using the onboard IDE controllers and boot -v shows udma > settings and anyway I can't think of a reason why the channels are > synchronized without the BIOS. Next thing to try after I copied my > boot parition. As I think over it, a /boot.conf entry could be > sufficient. > > If you're right, my plan seems to work. Cheap fast space :-))) Yup, works for me that way... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@freebsd.org) FreeBSD Core Team member To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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