Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:43:49 -0800 From: Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIA 8237 under FreeBSD 4.11 Message-ID: <1132681429.12577.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <200511230037.04218.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <1132629660.4202.3.camel@home-desk> <200511221449.16139.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <1132638281.5202.3.camel@home-desk> <200511230037.04218.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 00:36 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:14, Sean Bruno wrote: > > > Or you could try staying with PATA drives, but it's a losing battle - you > > > 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. > > Looks like this does work, on the ICH5 ... The patch doesn't address the VIA 8237, so surprise!<sarcasm> it doesn't change the speed of the drives... :( But, the 8237 works nicely under FreeBSD 6, so if we are going to move, we may re-consider it then. Sean
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