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. -- 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
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