ATA DMA

[Sten Spans]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Samo [iso-8859-2] Jelov¹ek wrote:

> hello,
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 on Alpha 164SX with some 80gb ATA100 disk and
> i'm wondering is there is any option to set up ATA DMA that would my
> disk work faster..

The onboard ata really really sucks
last time I checked it did:
PIO: 10-12mb
UDMA: 8mb

With a disk that easily does 20-30mb.
The easiest speedup is to get a symbios
875 or 895 scsi card.

-- 
Sten Spans

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