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From: kas@muni.cz (Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: freeBSD and P6/180
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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 09:45:26 GMT
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In article tedm@agora.rdrop.com writes:
:
: Dump all the IDE junk. There is no current busmastering IDE driver in
: FreeBSD, which means that even though the motherboard may claim to
: be "IDE busmastering" your going to be running in PIO mode. The only current
: server OS that I know of that supports IDE busmastering is Windows NT 4.0
:
I run my PIIX IDE controller (an Intel 430HX chipset) in busmastering
mode. And no, I'm not running NT (see my sig).
Sorry folks, I couldn't resist.
-Yenya
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