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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: EIDE driver - when?
Date: 2 Mar 1996 19:52:15 GMT
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Lasse Hannelius <hanneliu@cc.helsinki.fi> writes:
> Is there an EIDE (PIO 3/4) driver available anywhere?

Not that i knew of.

> If not, is anybody even
> developing one?

Not that i knew of.

> Won't a new 5400rpm drive be severly hampered by the current
> driver?

It won't load the CPU less or more than say a 3600 rpm drive. :)
It will load the CPU much more than a drive on a plain ol' AHA-1540.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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