ata vs wd driver performance

1999-12-08 Thread Richard S. Straka
I have recently performed some testing on the ata and wd drivers on my system. When writing to and reading from a file on the same file system in the same directory, the ata driver appears to take almost double the CPU time as compared to the wd driver. However, when reading from the raw disk,

Re: ide dma support not enabled

1999-12-04 Thread Richard S. Straka
Bruce Evans wrote: > On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Richard S. Straka wrote: > > > A kernel built from current source which was cvsup'ed today at > > approximately 10:00 pm MST no longer enables DMA support on my > > IDE drives. A previous kernel from 27 Nov had no problems

ide dma support not enabled

1999-12-03 Thread Richard S. Straka
A kernel built from current source which was cvsup'ed today at approximately 10:00 pm MST no longer enables DMA support on my IDE drives. A previous kernel from 27 Nov had no problems recognizing and enabling IDE DMA support. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Rich Straka [EMAIL PROTECTED]