From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 27 1:27:39 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 D452737B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 01:27:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.laserfence.net (apollo.laserfence.net [196.44.69.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AA4143FCB for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 01:27:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@unfoldings.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18oKJn-000815-00; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:27:07 +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 18oKJX-00080i-00; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:26:52 +0200 Received: from phoenix.home.laserfence.net ([192.168.0.2]) by prometheus.home.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18oKJT-000A22-00; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:26:47 +0200 Received: from will by phoenix.home.laserfence.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18oKJQ-0006QI-00; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:26:44 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen To: Soeren Schmidt , Len Conrad Subject: Re: can't get to ATA133 (Addendum to previous post) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:26:44 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200302270908.h1R98n4c083623@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <200302270908.h1R98n4c083623@spider.deepcore.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302271126.44164.will@unfoldings.net> X-Spam-Score: (/) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18oKJX-00080i-00*bqTvZzZhpA.* 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 11:08, someone, possibly Soeren Schmidt, typed: > > I've already thought of that and the guy on site says the Promise > > cables are 18 inches. > > Which is just about right... > > -S=F8ren Strange, I was told 30cm emphatically by our local techie, but S=F8ren did= =20 write the driver, so he's probably more correct than my techie. My mistake= =20 :) S=F8ren, what else could be causing this? On bootup, Len's system complains: > ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device > ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device Yet the controller's BIOS is satisfied with the cables, and they are within= =20 the length boundaries as you have correctly pointed out. Any ideas? Will =2D-=20 Willie Viljoen =46reelance 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