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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
