Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 01:22:11 +0100 From: Peter Mulholland <darkmatter@freeuk.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVD only gets udma2 (udma4 capable) Message-ID: <189750964.20050531012211@freeuk.com> In-Reply-To: <200505300140.43646.loox@e-shell.net> References: <200505300140.43646.loox@e-shell.net>
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Hello Axel, Monday, May 30, 2005, 7:40:43 AM, you wrote: AG> Im getting problems to get the DVD burner in udma4 mode. It says: AG> AG> ata1-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device AG> This is wrong, the device is udma4 capable. AG> The problem seems to be in the detection of the cable type, it detects it as AG> 40-pin, while its a 80-pin one. (dmsg is at the end) AG> * The DVD is secondary master, with no other devices on the cable AG> * THe bios detects it correctly, on boot screen it says udma66 AG> * When booting in w*n, it says udma66 AG> * I have another hard drive udma100 on same system, so I inverted (identical) AG> cables, and the HD is still at udma100, this to discard any cable problems. AG> Its important to get udma66 working, in order to achive maximum burning speed AG> for the drive. AG> So i'm out of ideas here, and any help would be apretiated. AG> Thanks in advance :) (snip) Try playing with the jumpers on the drive. If it is set to Cable Select (CS or CSEL), try manually jumpering it to Master. To be 100% correct, the drive should be jumpered as CSEL but i've seen quite a few cd/dvd drives that don't seem to work correctly when put in CSEL mode with an 80 wire cable. -- Best regards, Peter mailto:darkmatter@freeuk.com
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