>> Anyone working on the PCI IDE (w or w/o DMA) support?

>I modified the wd driver to use bus.h and added a PCI front-end some
>time ago.  Unfortunately, I then found that:
>
>1) the IDE chip I had was hard-wired to `legacy' mode, so I couldn't
>even test it, and
>
>2) there's a conflict between the port numbers used by the ISA IDE
>controller and ISA floppy controller, which causes one or the other
>(currently the floppy) to not be detected.
>
>I have reasonable hardware now, so I can actually test it, but the
>conflict needs to be dealt with somehow.

One of the FreeBSD folks worked up a driver that does DMA EIDE, and
supposedly a lot of people are having good success with it so far.
It' still beta, but it might be worth checking out...

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  Michael L. VanLoon                           michaelv@MindBender.serv.net
      Contract software development for Windows NT, Windows 95 and Unix.
             Windows NT and Unix server development in C++ and C.

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