From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 28 3:57:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (mta06-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91E1A37B41B; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 03:57:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([80.4.0.215]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020428105701.HATT20036.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 11:57:01 +0100 Received: from tuatara.goatsucker.org (tuatara.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.6]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3SAv1V95126; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 11:57:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott@tuatara.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.goatsucker.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3SAv1220722; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 11:57:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 11:57:01 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell 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> References: <20020428113034.A20049@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <20020428104201.18053.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020428104201.18053.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org>; from atk2@arctic.org on Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 10:42:01AM -0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 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 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