Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:40:54 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, d@delphij.net, Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Wiki for discussing P35/IHC9(R)/SATA issues set up Message-ID: <473044B6.605@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071106103507.GB85085@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <472FD0FB.9090608@delphij.net> <472FD23E.1060001@delphij.net> <47301CF6.8030808@delphij.net> <47301E91.7070303@gmail.com> <47301F40.8070605@delphij.net> <47302667.8030900@gmail.com> <20071106091409.GB83703@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <473035D4.3030200@gmail.com> <20071106095720.GA84549@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <47303F22.7080809@gmail.com> <20071106103507.GB85085@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>
> What this means is, how you have things presently proves that the
> device has SATA300 capability. "Serial ATA II" == SATA300.
>
> If dmesg on the machine shows "SATA150" for the device still, despite
> what atacontrol shows, then there may be a driver bug.
>
from dmesg:
ad6: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500630AS 3.AAE> at ata3-master SATA150
> Either way, this is a good improvement.
>
>
snip
>
> These two things are somewhat conflicting.
>
> 1) If the problem is fixed by Xi Lin's patch, then that seems to
> indicate it should be affecting everyone using the ICH9 controller,
> including those who use Asus, Abit, or MSI boards.
>
It is only partially fixed.
> 2) Boot manager as in the BIOS boot device menu, or as in FreeBSD BTX?
> If BIOS boot device menu, then that doesn't mean anything. The
> BIOS could indeed be doing something wrong which FreeBSD expects
> to be right. Problems like this should ideally be brought to the
> attention of the mainboard manufacturer.
>
BTX
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Aryeh M. Friedman
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