From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 16 18:19:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rain.macguire.net (sense-sea-MegaSub-1-125.oz.net [216.39.144.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A2D037B416 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roo@localhost) by rain.macguire.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3H1IXG31256; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roo) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:18:33 -0700 From: Benjamin Krueger To: Benjamin Krueger Cc: ScaryG , User Tomdean , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: DMS limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 compliant cable error msg Message-ID: <20020416181833.K23267@rain.macguire.net> References: <20020416195159.08971c73.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> <200204170103.g3H13mJ14610@celebris.tddhome> <20020416211311.3ecbaefc.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> <20020416181504.J23267@rain.macguire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020416181504.J23267@rain.macguire.net>; from benjamin@macguire.net on Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 06:15:04PM -0700 X-PGP-Key: http://www.macguire.net/benjamin/public_key.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Benjamin Krueger (benjamin@macguire.net) [020416 18:15]: > * ScaryG (freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu) [020416 18:12]: > > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:03:48 -0700 (PDT) > > User Tomdean wrote: > > > > > Do you have an 80-wire cable with a 40-pin connector on it? A > > > 40-wire, 40-pin connector cable is 33 > > > > No, it's a plain jane 40-pin cable. I guess I should have researched > > things before I bought this new spiffy drive. > > > > But the drive does work -- I just can't get it to dump data to the cd-rom > > burner. > > > > The line from dmesg indicates the IDE controller only support ATA > > > > atapci0: > > > > Another person responded that there are some cheap Promise ATA66 > > Controllers I can plug in. Would that be a good solution? > > > > Funny thing is, the back of the drive fits a 40-pin cable just fine. I'm > > always using the 'older' stuff so I don't even know what the ATA66 cables > > look like. > > > > BTW: The new drive is a Maxtor 4D040H2 [79408/16/63] at ata0-master WDMA2 > > > > I guess I should look up the stats for the drive as well. > > > > -gf > > If the motherboard ide chipset supports ata66, you shouldn't need a pci > controller. Old regular IDE cables do look nearly the same as newer ata66 > cables, however they're manufactured to different specifications, and > physically the ata66 cables are thinner. There are also ata100 and I assume > now ata133 cables too. > > Anyway, all you should need to do is get yourself a compliant ata66 cable. That'll teach me to forget earlier parts of the thread. You mentioned your mainboard only does 33, so I guess a pci controller is in your future. =) -- Benjamin Krueger "Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about." - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Send mail w/ subject 'send public key' or query for (0x251A4B18) Fingerprint = A642 F299 C1C1 C828 F186 A851 CFF0 7711 251A 4B18 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message