Subject: Re: [wrstuden@netbsd.org: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/macppc/stand]
To: Andreas Drewke <andreas_dr@gmx.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/18/2004 21:54:44
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:24:41AM +0100, Andreas Drewke wrote:
> I tried the new bootxx and it works great on my pm7300
> thanx a lot....
> 
> Now I use a promise udma/100 which works without problems...
> The only thing is that it downgrades the transfermode (pio 4, udma/33)...
> because of a crc error or read error...
> (cannot post dmesg, because I am at work now)
> 
> I read somewhere that macppc had problems generation crc32 with i386 devices
> (in this case it was a ethernet card) some time ago
> does anybody know if this was fixed and if it may be related to my
> problem???

No, it's not. In this case the crc32 is generated and checked by the drive
and adapter itself. The host don't even have access to it.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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