From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 2 20:52:01 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22CBD16A41A for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 20:52:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from eskimo.tundraware.com (eskimo.tundraware.com [66.92.130.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB9913C467 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 20:52:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (ozzie.tundraware.com [66.92.130.199]) (authenticated bits=0) by eskimo.tundraware.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l72KpqNG061888 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:51:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <46B243E3.30107@tundraware.com> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:51:47 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk Organization: TundraWare Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Mailing List References: <46A22253.8080100@tundraware.com> <20070721165539.GA2579@dan.emsphone.com> <1431AA268771E71884A824C3@fserv.hub.org> <20070722033804.GA49930@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20070726171402.GB89315@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-tundraware.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.399, required 1, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: SATA 300 Drive Being Run At 150 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tundra@tundraware.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:52:01 -0000 Eduardo Meyer wrote: >>> 4) Is your motherboard set to use AHCI for the SATA (ICH7) controller? >>> There's reports that SATA300 is only available/used on some controllers >>> when AHCI is used. >> I dont know. I could not find such a similar option on BIOS, so I dont >> know how to check it. Is it possible to be checked from system? > > Just to let everyone know, for me this "AHCI" thing made the whole > difference. On BIOS there were some options to be combined with AHCI, > and doing the right combination made the disk get controlled as > SATA300. > > Thank you veryone, specially Jeremy Chadwick for the valuable inputs. > > I cannot seem to find any relevant option for this on my Intel 946GZIS Mobo - and I just installed the very latest driver. During boot, I get this: atapci1: port 0x20c8-0x20cf,0x20ec-0x20ef,0x20c0-0x20c7,0x20e8-0x20eb,0x20a0-0x20af mem 0x90204000-0x902043ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0 Then I see this: ad4: 238475MB at ata2-master SATA150 However, I see this after the system comes up: $ atacontrol cap ad4 Protocol Serial ATA II device model WDC WD2500JS-00NCB1 serial number WD-WCANKD870194 firmware revision 10.02E02 cylinders 16383 heads 16 sectors/track 63 lba supported 268435455 sectors lba48 supported 488397168 sectors dma supported overlap not supported Feature Support Enable Value Vendor write cache yes yes read ahead yes yes Native Command Queuing (NCQ) yes - 31/0x1F Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ) no no 31/0x1F SMART yes yes microcode download yes yes security yes no power management yes yes advanced power management no no 0/0x00 automatic acoustic management yes no 254/0xFE 128/0x80 So .... does the fact that "Protocol Serial ATA II" is reported mean the drive is actually running as SATA 300 regardless of what was reported during boot? And, yes, I have tried the speed limiting jumper on the back of the drive both on- and off- with no difference... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/