From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 21 14:59: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC2EC37B509 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:58:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA191918; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:58:50 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200008211670886.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu> References: <200008211670886.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:59:20 -0400 To: Rich Wales , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: ATA66 cable being ignored? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:03 AM -0700 8/21/00, Rich Wales wrote: >My new Dell OptiPlex GX300 (running 4.1-RELEASE) came with an 80-wire >ATA cable. I added a second drive and am using this cable for both >drives. However, the kernel fails to recognize the cable and is limit- >ing DMA speed accordingly. Any ideas? > >See below for the relevant portion of the "boot -v" output. I note the >"cblid=0" value -- leading me to wonder if the problem might possibly >be with the integrated ATA controller on the motherboard not sensing or >reporting the cable properly. This is an 800-MHz Pentium III system, >though, so I find it a bit hard to believe that it isn't UDMA66-capable. > >======================================================================== > >. . . >atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device >31.1 on pci0 >ata0: iobase=0x01f0 altiobase=0x03f6 bmaddr=0xffa0 >ata0: mask=03 status0=50 status1=50 >ata0: mask=03 status0=50 status1=50 >ata0: devices = 0x3 >ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 >. . . >ata0-master: DMA limitted to UDMA33, non-ATA66 compliant cable >ata0-master: success setting up UDMA2 mode on ICH chip > >======================================================================== For what it's worth, I have been seeing this too. In my case I have two IDE controllers, one on the motherboard, and the other a PCI card from Promise. I'm pretty sure the cable is correct, although I haven't actually ripped the machine apart again to check it... In my case, I'm running 4.1-release --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message