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Date:      Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:26:32 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kristian_Kr=E6mmer_Nielsen?= <freebsd@com.jkkn.dk>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   ata driver downgrades transfer speed for Intel ICH5 SATA150 in RELENG_8 ?
Message-ID:  <4B5CBB08.8040602@com.jkkn.dk>

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Hey,

I just updated my kernel from RELEASE_8_0 to RELENG_8 and by rutine I 
compare my dmesg -a output to make sure everything still works as expected.

I notices that the ata-driver suddently downgraded the speed of my Intel 
ICH5 SATS150 from SATA150 til UDMA133 - and I am not allowed to change 
it manually by using atacontrol.

Can this have something to do with the recent rewrite of ata-sata.c ?
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-sata.c.diff?r1=1.6.2.2;r2=1.6.2.3

By mav:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-sata.c


Here is the dmesg output compared with RELEASE_8_0 to RELENG_8:

...cut out...
atapci0: <Intel ICH5 UDMA100 controller> port 
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata0: [ITHREAD]
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
ata1: [ITHREAD]
atapci1: <Intel ICH5 SATA150 controller> port 
0xec00-0xec07,0xe800-0xe803,0xe400-0xe407,0xe000-0xe003,0xdc00-0xdc0f 
irq 18 at d
evice 31.2 on pci0
atapci1: [ITHREAD]
ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
ata2: [ITHREAD]
ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1
ata3: [ITHREAD]
...cut out...
-ad4: 305245MB <Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAD> at ata2-master SATA150
+ad4: 305245MB <Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAD> at ata2-master UDMA133
...cut out...
-ad6: 305245MB <Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAD> at ata3-master SATA150
+ad6: 305245MB <Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAD> at ata3-master UDMA133
...cut out...
  ar0: 305245MB <Intel MatrixRAID RAID1> status: READY
  ar0: disk0 READY (master) using ad4 at ata2-master
  ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad6 at ata3-master
...end...

Best regards,
Kristian Krĉmmer Nielsen,
Odense, Denmark





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