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Date:      Wed, 6 Aug 2003 22:53:23 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
To:        Buckie <freebsd1@centrum.cz>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ultra ATA card doesn't seem to provide Ultra speeds. - SOLVED
Message-ID:  <200308062053.h76KrN1C091666@spider.deepcore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <4310441759.20030806233923@centrum.cz>

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It seems Buckie wrote:
> Hello folks.
> Some of you may remember my trouble with SI0680-based ULTRADMA ATA
> controller card. Well, the problem was obvivously the faulty card.
> After replacing it works fine.
> 
> I don't know what magic Soeren has put in the SI driver, but unlike
> Windows it never crashed, never hang, it even tried to use UDMA modes.
> So kudos to Soeren for writing quality drivers like that one.
> 
> I also remember Peter Kiesser has had some issues with drives falling
> back to PIO with SIS controller. I had this too on the drive that FreeBSD5.1_RELEASE used to start
> from. So now we know this can be an issue with a broken controller.
> (It doesn't fall back to PIO here after replacement is made). Again,
> thanks to Soeren it just magically worked (as best as it could
> obvivously) in spite of all the fish.
> 
> That's all!

OK! then I dont need to spend more time looking for trouble on that one :)

-Søren



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