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author | sos <sos@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-06 09:09:37 +0000 |
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committer | sos <sos@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-06 09:09:37 +0000 |
commit | 27469e874383b171ed7de277b6c94ab96666f93a (patch) | |
tree | a67423eb0411f744cf7d9e37e03de6835661c04f /release | |
parent | 17d8aa3beeaad0402b56cdccb976bf2bc1e0ad36 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-27469e874383b171ed7de277b6c94ab96666f93a.zip FreeBSD-src-27469e874383b171ed7de277b6c94ab96666f93a.tar.gz |
Add the ata driver to the list of new things in 4.0
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-rw-r--r-- | release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT | 17 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT | 17 |
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diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT index 59f4898..478e307 100644 --- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -79,6 +79,23 @@ An emulator for SVR4 binaries has been added. Support has been added for direct access to NTFS filesystems. +A new ATA/ATAPI driver has been implemented. The aim of this new +subsystem is to maximise performance on modern ATA/ATAPI based +systems. The "ata" driver supports all major chipsets including +those used on PCI card based controllers like the Promise and the +Abit/SIIG. There is support for busmaster DMA transfers upto and +including the new ATA/66 mode. The 'ata' driver automatically +setup the hardware for the maximum possible transfer mode to +maximise system throughput. Supported devices are all ATA compliant +disks and ATAPI CDROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, LS120, ZIP +and tape drives. The ata driver also support PCCARD ATA devices. +The 'ata' driver also sports error handling and timeout code, to +avoid the problems of "hung" ATA/ATAPI devices. + +A new utility 'burncd' has been written to facilitate easy control +of ATAPI CD-R and CD-RW drives, and allows burning of CD-R/RW +media in a wide selction of formats, including multisession mode. + Driver support has been added for PCI gigabit ethernet adapters based on the Alteon Networks Tigon 1 and Tigon 2 chipsets, including the Alteon AceNIC, 3Com 3c985 and Netgear GA620. [MERGED] diff --git a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT index d58b79b..dd24b1e 100644 --- a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -83,6 +83,23 @@ Support for the NWFS filesystem and NetWare client connections has been added. A variety of NetWare related tools, such as ipxping and ncprint, have been added in ports/net/ncplib. +A new ATA/ATAPI driver has been implemented. The aim of this new +subsystem is to maximise performance on modern ATA/ATAPI based +systems. The "ata" driver supports all major chipsets including +those used on PCI card based controllers like the Promise and the +Abit/SIIG. There is support for busmaster DMA transfers upto and +including the new ATA/66 mode. The 'ata' driver automatically +setup the hardware for the maximum possible transfer mode to +maximise system throughput. Supported devices are all ATA compliant +disks and ATAPI CDROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, LS120, ZIP +and tape drives. The ata driver also support PCCARD ATA devices. +The 'ata' driver also sports error handling and timeout code, to +avoid the problems of "hung" ATA/ATAPI devices. + +A new utility 'burncd' has been written to facilitate easy control +of ATAPI CD-R and CD-RW drives, and allows burning of CD-R/RW +media in a wide selction of formats, including multisession mode. + Driver support has been added for PCI gigabit ethernet adapters based on the Alteon Networks Tigon 1 and Tigon 2 chipsets, including the Alteon AceNIC, 3Com 3c985 and Netgear GA620. [MERGED] |