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Date:      Mon, 8 Dec 2003 07:46:25 +0200 (SAST)
From:      "Mark Pearce" <mark@netchat.co.za>
To:        "JacobRhoden" <jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why would drive run at UDMA33? (Segate 80GB)
Message-ID:  <1416.10.0.5.4.1070862385.squirrel@mail.inf.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <200312081621.52572.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au>
References:  <200312081621.52572.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au>

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> Hi,
>
> I have just purchased a new 80GB drive, howerver i noticed it is running
> significantly slower than my current 80gb drive.
>
> Dmesg says this:
>   ad0: 76319MB <ST380021A> [155061/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
>   ad2: 76319MB <ST380011A> [155061/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33
>

Hi

Do you by any chance have a cdrom or dvd drive connected on your secondry
IDE?  If so, this would explain the drop in speed.  Try connecting the 2
80G drives as master and slave on the same IDE.

Mark



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