From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 16 13:10:23 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED80106564A for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:10:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97D938FC08 for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:10:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p3GDA5Yd031716; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:10:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id p3GDA5u9031715; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:10:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:10:05 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <201104161310.p3GDA5u9031715@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <8CDC9E9E1563B60-176C-8345@web-mmc-d04.sysops.aol.com> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hardware User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.4-PRERELEASE-20080904 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.3.5 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:10:21 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: Problem with SATA-600 (a.k.a. SATA 3) disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:10:23 -0000 dieterbsd@engineer.com wrote: > Oliver Fromme writes: > > ahcich3: Timeout on slot 0 > > > > Is there a way to force FreeBSD to use SATA-300 only? > > I've searched the mailing lists, but without results. > > man ahci says: > > The following tunables are settable from the loader(8): > > hint.ahcich.X.sata_rev > setting to nonzero value limits maximum SATA revision (speed). > Values 1, 2 and 3 are respectively 1.5, 3 and 6Gbps. Thank you. That works indeed. *sigh* I spent considerable time searching the lists and google, but somehow I missed that part in the ahci manpage ... The only problem left is that I have to reboot when I want to connect a device that can really support SATA-600. But I can live with that. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "People still program in C. People keep writing shell scripts. *Most* people don't realize the shortcomings of the tools they are using because they a) don't reflect on their workflows and they are b) too lazy to check out alternatives to realize there is help." -- Simon 'corecode' Schubert