From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 11 7:50:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from chiifw01.quakeroats.com (chiifw01.quakeroats.com [207.122.210.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AA2137BBCB for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 07:50:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Scott_Thompson@quakeroats.com) Received: from chintmg2.corp.quakeroats.com by chiifw01.quakeroats.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) with SMTP; 11 Aug 2000 14:50:06 UT Received: by chintmg2.corp.quakeroats.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 09:51:53 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Thompson, Scott" To: 'Francisco Reyes' , "Gary T. Corcoran" Cc: FreeBSD Hardware List , Michael VanLoon Subject: RE: Best behaved drives for FreeBSD? Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 09:51:12 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ata66 needs the 80 conductor cable just like ata100. ata33 and slower uses the old 40 conductor cable. the controllers fall back based on cable and drive performance. -----Original Message----- From: Francisco Reyes [mailto:fran@reyes.somos.net] Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 8:01 AM To: Gary T. Corcoran Cc: FreeBSD Hardware List; Michael VanLoon Subject: Re: Best behaved drives for FreeBSD? On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 04:53:01 -0400, Gary T. Corcoran wrote: >Huh? You seem to be disagreeing with me, yet as I read the >above, it seems to agree with what I said: the ATA66 and >ATA100 drives use the *same* 80 conductor (40 pin) cables. From what I quoted/read it seems that ATA66 can use a 40 wire cable, but ATA100 needs the 80 wire one. In others, yes one can buy a cable that can work for both, one can also buy a cable that transmits at the ATA66 speed, but not at the ATA100. francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message