Re: IBM-DJNA drives on FreeBSD

1999-07-05 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Peter Wemm wrote: > > Well, CAM & ATAPI is "fairly" easy, the only problem being all the > > little details that are different enough to make it non-trivial to > > maintain. I once sat down and tried to get all the details on how > > the CCB's where different, and decided that I wouldn't

Re: IBM-DJNA drives on FreeBSD

1999-07-05 Thread Peter Wemm
Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Nick Hibma wrote: > > > > I should have said "known bad configuration". I know Søren's ATA > > > > driver supports UDMA on the Aladdin, but I don't have the luxury of > > > > expendable file systems, so I don't use it. I also think it's the > > > > wrong directi

Re: IBM-DJNA drives on FreeBSD

1999-07-05 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Nick Hibma wrote: > > > I should have said "known bad configuration". I know Søren's ATA > > > driver supports UDMA on the Aladdin, but I don't have the luxury of > > > expendable file systems, so I don't use it. I also think it's the > > > wrong direction to go off in; if we're going

Re: IBM-DJNA drives on FreeBSD

1999-07-05 Thread Nick Hibma
> > I should have said "known bad configuration". I know Søren's ATA > > driver supports UDMA on the Aladdin, but I don't have the luxury of > > expendable file systems, so I don't use it. I also think it's the > > wrong direction to go off in; if we're going to totally rewrite our > > IDE dr

Re: IBM-DJNA drives on FreeBSD

1999-07-05 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "Brian F. Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 4 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > Depends on your motherboard. Try to just disable UDMA66 first. If that > > > doesn't help, or if you have a "known bad" chipset (e.g. AcerLabs > > > Aladdin), di

Re: IBM-DJNA drives on FreeBSD

1999-07-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Brian F. Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 4 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Depends on your motherboard. Try to just disable UDMA66 first. If that > > doesn't help, or if you have a "known bad" chipset (e.g. AcerLabs > > Aladdin), disable UDMA completely in the BIOS setup utilit

Re: IBM-DJNA drives on FreeBSD

1999-07-04 Thread Richard Tobin
> Depends on your motherboard. Try to just disable UDMA66 first. Thanks, that's what I did. It works fine (I'm using a SOYO 5EHM motherboard with an AMD K6-2/200). Performance is excellent; bonnie gives: ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random--

Re: IBM-DJNA drives on FreeBSD

1999-07-04 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On 4 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Richard Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is that relevant for 3.2 as well as current? And by "disabling ultra > > DMA" did you mean "disabling UDMA66" or "disabling UDMA completely"? > > (You can permanently disable UDMA66 with a DOS utility avail

Re: IBM-DJNA drives on FreeBSD

1999-07-04 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Richard Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is that relevant for 3.2 as well as current? And by "disabling ultra > > DMA" did you mean "disabling UDMA66" or "disabling UDMA completely"? > > (You can permanently disable UDMA66 with a DOS utility available >

Re: IBM-DJNA drives on FreeBSD

1999-07-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Richard Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is that relevant for 3.2 as well as current? And by "disabling ultra > DMA" did you mean "disabling UDMA66" or "disabling UDMA completely"? > (You can permanently disable UDMA66 with a DOS utility available > from IBM, and it will then act as a plain UD

IBM-DJNA drives on FreeBSD

1999-07-01 Thread Richard Tobin
I'm about to install FreeBSD 3.2 on a machine with an IBM-DJNA-371350 (Deskstar 22GXP 13.5GB) drive. I see that on the -current mailing list a few weeks ago you (phk) said: >Try disabling "ultra DMA" in the BIOS, that seems to have worked for >me on my IBM-DJNA-371800 drive. Is that relevant fo