Subject: Re: wd driver question
To: Robert Kennedy <robert@cs.stanford.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/15/1998 14:43:54
On Dec 14, Robert Kennedy wrote
> I have looked at (what I think is) the code for the wd driver in 1.3.1
> (or is it 1.3.2?) and there appears to be nothing that sets the
> WDF_32BIT flag. That's the flag bit that signals the driver that the
> disk is capable of 32-bit port I/O transfers.
> 
> Am I missing something, or do we never set that bit? If we don't set
> it, why not?

No, we never set it. It's because it's not trivial to detect if the controller
is 32-bit capable or not. The IDE code from -current can use 32-bit
accesses.

> 
> Is this bit the same thing as "32-bit disk access" under MS-Windoze
> for Workgroups? I don't think it is, but I figure I should ask.
> 

I don't know ... The less I tweak MS-Windoze, the better I am :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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