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#! rnews 1367 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Intel Premiere EIDE bug and FreeBSD Date: 9 Aug 1995 16:40:58 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 18 Message-ID: <40aoeq$lcf@helena.MT.net> References: <409tkq$89t@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <409tkq$89t@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> wrote: >Below I inlude a post from the comp.sys.intel group >about problems with Pentium motherboards with the >RZ-1000 PCI controller chip. Does FreeBSD use >this prefetch method for fast EIDE transfers ? At this point in time, FreeBSD has not native EIDE support. It uses the stock IDE driver, so this bug will not (yet) occur in FreeBSD. However, there is an EIDE driver in the works, so it may be a problem with it. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. Wanna go fishing? Send me email, and we'll home #: (406) 443-7063 | setup something.