Subject: Re: IDE controller for Alpha 200 4/100?
To: Olaf Schjelderup <Olaf.Schjelderup@uninett.no>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/20/2000 09:43:43
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 06:27:48PM +0200, Olaf Schjelderup wrote:

 > I'm up and running with NetBSD 1.4.2 on my Alpha 200 4/100. I consider
 > to put a 20MB IDE hardisk in it, so I wonder if anyone on the list could
 > recommend one or more cheap and common PCI IDE controllers, which is
 > supported by NetBSD 1.4.2 on this Alpha-platform?

In 1.4.2, nothing really.  In NetBSD-current (now 1.5_ALPHA!), you can
use the Promise controllers:

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NetBSD 1.4Y (YEAH-BABY) #53: Wed May 10 11:50:36 PDT 2000
    thorpej@yeah-baby:/u1/netbsd/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/YEAH-BABY
AlphaStation 200 4/233, 233MHz
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pciide0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0: Promise Ultra33/ATA Bus Master IDE Accelerator
pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
pciide0: primary channel configured to native-PCI mode
pciide0: using isa irq 14 for native-PCI interrupt
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <IBM-DTTA-371440>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
wd0: 13783 MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 28229040 sectors
wd0: 32-bit data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (using DMA data transfers)
pciide0: secondary channel configured to native-PCI mode
pciide0: disabling secondary channel (no drives)
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