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Date:      Sun, 22 May 2005 12:09:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        alan bryan <alanbryan1234@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nForce 4, SATA Drive only runs at UDMA33?
Message-ID:  <20050522120538.Q27009@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050520204926.21944.qmail@web50308.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20050520204926.21944.qmail@web50308.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Fri, 20 May 2005, alan bryan wrote:

>
> --- Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> wrote:
> > Can you post the output of "pciconf -lv"? The nForce
> > IDE controller is
> > properly detected, but it looks like there's another
> > one in the system.
> > Looking at the spec for the system it may be the
> > proprietary nVidia RAID
> > controller.  The pciconf output should help us
> > identify if thats the
> > issue.
>
> FYI: RAID features are disabled in the BIOS, I'm just
> trying to get a single SATA drive to work at full
> speed.  The other drive in this system is IDE and that
> seems to be working at proper speed.  Thanks for the
> help!

I guess turning off the RAID converts the chips into standard SATA
controllers. I'll have to look into that. An nForce 4 machine recently
appeared at work, so I'll see what I can get it to do.

> atapci0@pci0:6:0:       class=0x01018a card=0x50361297
> chip=0x005310de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00
>     vendor   = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
>     class    = mass storage
>     subclass = ATA
> atapci1@pci0:7:0:       class=0x010185 card=0x50361297
> chip=0x005410de rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00
>     vendor   = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
>     class    = mass storage
>     subclass = ATA
> atapci2@pci0:8:0:       class=0x010185 card=0xcb8410de
> chip=0x005510de rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00
>     vendor   = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
>     class    = mass storage
>     subclass = ATA

It looks like sos added support for atapci1 and 2 in this listing in the
ATAmkIII patchset.  While that patchset is in -CURRENT you'll have to
apply the -stable patches yourself. Search the list archives for the
location, soren posts it now and again.

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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