From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 22:17:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A8D237B401; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:17:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.laserfence.net (apollo.laserfence.net [196.44.69.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B953643FDD; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:17:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@unfoldings.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18oHMO-0006wI-00; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:17:36 +0200 Received: from prometheus-p0.datel.laserfence.net ([192.168.255.1] helo=prometheus.home.laserfence.net) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18oHM9-0006wA-00; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:17:23 +0200 Received: from phoenix.home.laserfence.net ([192.168.0.2]) by prometheus.home.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18oHM5-0009VW-00; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:17:18 +0200 Received: from will by phoenix.home.laserfence.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18oHM4-00067a-00; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:17:16 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen To: Len Conrad , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Hardware List Subject: Re: can't get to ATA133 Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:17:16 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030226165710.028ad2f0@mail.go2france.com> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030226165710.028ad2f0@mail.go2france.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302270817.16648.will@unfoldings.net> X-Spam-Score: (/) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18oHM9-0006wA-00*b2IWtTjA8qk* X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020422 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 Thursday 27 February 2003 1:01, someone, possibly Len Conrad, typed: > FreeBSD 4.7R > > Promise TX2000 with two ATA133 drives as ata masters using the ATA133 IDE > cables that came with the TX2000. > > dmesg shows: > > ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device > ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device > ar0: 39083MB [4982/255/63] status: READY subdisks: > 0 READY ad4: 39083MB [79408/16/63] at ata2-master > UDMA33 ar1: 39083MB [4982/255/63] status: READY > subdisks: 0 READY ad6: 39083MB [79408/16/63] at > ata3-master UDMA33 > > Anybody know why TX sees only 33? The ata driver is quite strict on standards implementation. It could be that the promise cables may not comply as strictly with the standard as it would prefer. Try getting 80-conductor cables from a third party. Generally speaking, buying your own cables is better than using the ones that came with the controller anyway, as those are usually el-cheapos, even with the most expensive controllers. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message