Subject: RE: IDE interface at PCI bus?
To: None <bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
From: David Guynn <dguynn@geocities.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/02/1998 16:20:48
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Umm, from the last time I saw the intel docs:
processor bus-------------------------------
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pci chipset ------- IDE
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ide bus
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the ISA bridge
- -Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-i386-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-i386-
owner@netbsd.org]On
> Behalf Of Bernd Sieker
> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 11:12 AM
> To: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: IDE interface at PCI bus?
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> again one of those stupid hardware quastions...
>
> I use NetBSD-1.3.2.
>
> As most more recent PCs my board has 2 (E)IDE interfaces onboard,
> supposedly connected via the PCI bus.
>
> However, the kernel configuration file does not have options for
ide
> buses at pci, and although the kernel detects it like:
>
> vendor 0x1106 product 0x0571 (IDE mass storage, interface 0x8a,\
> revision 0x06) at pci0 dev 7 function 1 not configured
>
> it still configures only wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14.
>
> Does this have any meaning for performance, or is it just that the
IDE
> interface resides "logically" on the ISA bus?
>
> My board also supports UDMA/33 transfers, but NetBSD only uses:
> wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba mode
>
> I'm not an expert in PC hardware, so maybe anyone could clarify the
> situation here? I did not find anything in the FAQs.
>
> --
> Bernd Siek
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