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Date:      Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:23:55 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: SATA 300 Drive Being Run At 150
Message-ID:  <46A2250B.3000609@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <46A22253.8080100@tundraware.com>
References:  <46A22253.8080100@tundraware.com>

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Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> I asked this question a while back, but needed to do more digging to make
> sure I had latest sources etc.
>
> I have an Intel motherboard that shows this for a SATA controller:
>
> atapci1: <Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller> port 
> 0x20c8-0x20cf,0x20ec-0x20ef,0x20c0-0x20c7,0x20e8-0x20eb,0x20a0-0x20af 
> mem 0x90204000-0x902043ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0
>
> But the hard drive - a SATA 300 device - shows up like this:
>
> ad4: 238475MB <WDC WD2500JS-00NCB1 10.02E02> at ata2-master SATA150
>                                                             ^^^^^^^
>
> Using dd, I have confirmed that the drive is running nowhere near
> SATA-III speeds, at least on reads:
>
> 968470075 bytes transferred in 7.132891 secs (135775249 bytes/sec)
>
> This is on a 6.2-Stable system that is very lightly loaded...
>
SATA Cable not 300Mbps capable?
-Garrett



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