Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 11:57:01 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: atk2@arctic.org Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: checking hard disk -- hdparm like tool? Message-ID: <20020428115701.B20049@fishballoon.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020428104201.18053.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org>; from atk2@arctic.org on Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 10:42:01AM -0000 References: <20020428113034.A20049@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <20020428104201.18053.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org>
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On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 10:42:01AM -0000, atk2@arctic.org wrote: > The motherboard is an A7V333 (new board) that has a VT8233a for south bridge > which supports ata133 (aka UDMA 6). The bios indicates the drive is UDMA 6 > enabled. > > My original email suggested that maybe FreeBSD doesn't detect/understand the > VT8233a and is reverting to UDMA 2 - could this be the case? You're probably right -- it looks like you have everything set up correctly, but the driver is playing it safe with an unknown controller. It might be worth upgrading to the latest -STABLE and verifying that the problem still exists. Then send a message to freebsd-stable, perhaps cc'd to Søren Schmidt, the author of the ata driver (his address is in the manpage). There might be a very simple patch to tell the driver that yes, this controller really does support these modes. Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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