Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 00:48:55 +0000 From: Frank Leonhardt <frank2@fjl.co.uk> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When is sataIII actually =?UTF-8?Q?sataIII=3F?= Message-ID: <b82a4dc2a6c8f221f98e9b07b6027874@roundcube.fjl.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1541089446.3446788.1562395368.3456C3CC@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <032dec6a280136b4b80d77715b0b1b17@mail-on.us> <441037E6-67AD-49A9-9151-3F617A7AE1AE@fjl.co.uk> <96848c4e433f9c28a017bc467d10b232@mail-on.us> <1541089446.3446788.1562395368.3456C3CC@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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On 2018-11-01 16:24, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Thu, Nov 1, 2018, at 8:45 AM, spamless@mail-on.us wrote: > >> I have another Sata 3 drive on the second Sata 3 port, that FreeBSD >> actually treats as what it is: >> ada1 at ahcich1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0 >> ada1: <ST3000DM001-1CH166 CC47> ACS-2 ATA SATA 3.x device >> ada1: Serial Number W1F55VT9 >> ada1: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) >> ada1: Command Queueing enabled >> ada1: 2861588MB (5860533168 512 byte sectors) >> ada1: quirks=0x1<4K> >> >> note the "quirks" - is that good, or bad? >> >> In the end, it appears that I have to purchase a slower rated (Sata 3) >> drive >> to get FreeBSD to treat it as a Sata 3 drive? It makes no sense to me. >> Which >> is why I came here; in hopes of finding out *why* it appears as it >> does. >> :) >> >> Thanks again, Frank! >> >> Oh! In case it matters; this is on 12 (CURRENT) >> >> -- >> Chris out... > A full dmesg would be useful. A dmesg from a verbose boot even more > useful. > As well as the make and model of the motherboard. > > The most common problem is the controller the drive is plugged into > isn't actually capable of SATA 3. Also, I guess you know that 12-CURRENT is the riskiest one to be testing on. You didn't mention that before :-) Boot from an 11.2-RELEASE CD and see what it has to say. I take what people say about computing equipment and its performance with a pinch of salt. would be surprised that WDs blurb says it's cheap blue series is faster than the enterprise versions, if anything manufacturers said surprised me any more. Gotta link? Regards, Frank.
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