VIA 8237 under FreeBSD 4.11

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:14, Sean Bruno wrote:
> > Or you could try staying with PATA drives, but it's a losing battle - you
> > will be hard pressed to find a new PC for which the devices are properly
> > supported. (eg stuff like onboard ethernet)
>
> /me groans...patches eh?
>
> I'm not a BSD guy by trade...Could you tell me who Doug B is?  and point
> me to the "patches" ... I want to at least see if my application(which
> is seriously I/O bound) can be assisted by increasing the speed of the
> drive's access.  SCSI is just too expensive for the stuff I want to do.

WHoops it was Doug Ambrisko, not Doug Barton.

Look here http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/ata/

I'm pretty sure those patches are for 4.x..

> P.S.  But, if all else fails, FreeBSD 6 looks like the direction I need
> to go anyway.


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