VIA 8237 under FreeBSD 4.11

[Sean Bruno]

On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 00:36 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
Looks like this does work, on the ICH5 ...

The patch doesn't address the VIA 8237, so surprise!<sarcasm>  it
doesn't change the speed of the drives...  :(

But, the 8237 works nicely under FreeBSD 6, so if we are going to move,
we may re-consider it then.

Sean