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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q: Is bus mastering with IDE drives using Triton chipset suppported?
Date: 18 Jul 1996 11:42:24 GMT
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pavlidis@ibm.net (Savas Pavlidis) wrote:

> I would like to know if FreeBSD supports bus mastering with EIDE
> drives (ATA,ATA-2) on motherboards which use the Triton chipset.

No.  Nobody wrote them yet, and a fair amount of all the EIDE chipsets
around is known to have broken busmastering anyway.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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