Subject: Re: IDE controller card for PWS
To: None <port-alpha@NetBSD.org>
From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
List: port-alpha
Date: 08/15/2003 16:36:26
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 02:42:25PM +0200, Olaf Seibert wrote:
> > So I would recommend: Use a IDE disk with IDE-SCSI bridge on a SCSI
> > adapter or a DMA capable IDE adapter. If SRM don't like the later
> Would adding an IDE card help despite my DMA troubles, do you think?
Possibly. AFAIK the more modern IDE adapters have working DMA.
I am still pure SCSI, I don't care much about IDE. _I_ would
by a IDE-SCSI bridge. No trouble with broken IDE adapters and
the disk will be usable on not IDE capable Systems.
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tschüß,
Jochen
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