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Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!duke.cs.duke.edu!macbeth.cs.duke.edu!not-for-mail From: pusateri@macbeth.cs.duke.edu (Thomas Pusateri) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Intel Premiere EIDE bug and FreeBSD Date: 10 Aug 1995 23:58:38 -0400 Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <40ekhe$is1@macbeth.cs.duke.edu> References: <409tkq$89t@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <40aoeq$lcf@helena.MT.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: macbeth.cs.duke.edu In article <40aoeq$lcf@helena.MT.net> "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> writes: >In article <409tkq$89t@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, >Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> wrote: >>Below I inlude a post from the comp.sys.intel group >>about problems with Pentium motherboards with the >>RZ-1000 PCI controller chip. Does FreeBSD use >>this prefetch method for fast EIDE transfers ? > >At this point in time, FreeBSD has not native EIDE support. It uses the >stock IDE driver, so this bug will not (yet) occur in FreeBSD. However, >there is an EIDE driver in the works, so it may be a problem with it. I have a midwest micro P90 running freebsd 2.0. This machine was mentioned in the report as one affected. I never knew why I was getting errors in my files but this happens to me pretty often. A text file will have a 'A' changed to a 'T' and similar things. It usually happens when I ftp something from the PCMCIA ethernet port and then unzip and untar it. Time to talk to Midwest Micro about a motherboard swap I guess. Tom