From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 14 07:43:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45B891065679 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:43:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CCBD8FC13 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:42:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 28268 invoked by uid 399); 14 Dec 2009 07:42:44 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 14 Dec 2009 07:42:44 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4B25EC42.4090604@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:41:54 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "b. f." References: <4B25D1ED.5060509@FreeBSD.org> <4B25DA75.5080807@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AHCI/ATA_CAM for dummies? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:43:13 -0000 b. f. wrote: > Hmm. From what little I know, your chipset should support AHCI, so > perhaps your motherboard or bios isn't set up right?: > > p. 39, 44 of the pdf at: > > http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/307013.htm On page 44 it says, "for some features, hardware support in the SATA device ..." Full output of 'camcontrol identify': pass0: ATA-7 SATA 1.x device pass0: 100.000MB/s transfers (UDMA5, PIO size 8192bytes) protocol ATA/ATAPI-7 SATA 1.x device model Hitachi HTS721010G9SA00 firmware revision MCZOC10H serial number MPCZN7Y0GZSYAL cylinders 16383 heads 16 sectors/track 63 sector size logical 512, physical 512, offset 0 LBA supported 195371568 sectors LBA48 supported 195371568 sectors PIO supported PIO4 DMA supported WDMA2 UDMA5 overlap not supported Feature Support Enable Value Vendor read ahead yes yes write cache yes yes flush cache yes yes Native Command Queuing (NCQ) yes 31/0x1F Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ) no no 31/0x1F SMART yes yes microcode download yes yes security yes no power management yes yes advanced power management yes yes 16512/0x4080 automatic acoustic management yes yes 254/0xFE 128/0x80 media status notification no no power-up in Standby yes no write-read-verify no no 0/0x0 unload no no free-fall no no Perhaps it does not have the requisite "hardware support" for ahci? -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/