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From: pavlidis@ibm.net (Savas Pavlidis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Q: Is bus mastering with IDE drives using Triton chipset suppported?
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 08:01:10 GMT
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I would like to know if FreeBSD supports bus mastering with EIDE
drives (ATA,ATA-2) on motherboards which use the Triton chipset. There
are already drivers for Win95, WinNT and OS/2 by Intel. I red in an
article that Linux have bus mastering drivers as well. 

Savas Pavlidis

pavlidis@ibm.net