From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 11 19:38:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C79B316A42B for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:38:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: from web60024.mail.yahoo.com (web60024.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50D7443D48 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:38:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: (qmail 35766 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Mar 2006 19:38:13 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=5IVp86snKxHvaAZUMzkvX0GKmvAJIGlw3PGMWXtCxonS6R0ILoUBGcMCH/2vdmtRqBdWhE2swnug33QadZKuPM+L9XiVPzYuCa9TRJKeuf8lJL2sC/CJgUMvhWaeink2oqSpt/WiEcvH1b0zHJSiNTybWrH4x6wGaYelp2qMJ5A= ; Message-ID: <20060311193813.35764.qmail@web60024.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [65.94.40.155] by web60024.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 14:38:13 EST Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 14:38:13 -0500 (EST) From: Peter To: "Donald J. O'Neill" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200603110738.47289.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Peter Subject: Re: Disappointed with version 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:38:14 -0000 --- "Donald J. O'Neill" wrote: [...] > > ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable > > ad0: 39205MB at ata0-master UDMA33 > > acd0: CDROM at ata0-slave PIO4 > > ad2: 190782MB at ata1-master UDMA100 > > ad3: 286168MB at ata1-slave UDMA100 > > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > > > > __________________________________________________ > You've got a problem alright, and you don't even see it. > > ========================== > The ata driver sets the maximum transfer mode supported by the > hardware > as default. However the ata driver sometimes warns: ``DMA limited to > > UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device''. This means that the ata driver > has detected that the required 80 conductor cable is not present or > could not be detected properly, or that one of the devices on the > channel only accepts up to UDMA2/ATA33. > ========================== > > You've got your 40GB Maxtor (you've installed FreeBSD on it), an > ATA100 > device, connected with your CDROM, an ATA33 device. The result is: > your > boot drive is running at UDMA33 instead of UDMA100. This is not going > > to work real well, as you can see. > > Do you really need that 40GB Maxtor? If you do, you're going to have > to > try adding an ATA controller card into one of your PCI slots and use > that to connect your hard drives to. > > Try removing the 40GB Maxtor and reinstalling FreeBSD on the other > two > drives. I think that will clear up some problems for you. Can this be causing the problem with the 300 GB drive on the other controller? What I don't understand is why is there a problem only with one drive on the secondary controller? As for the cdrom, how else can it be connected? It will ALWAYS be slower than the hard disk. Or do you mean it should just not be connected to the boot drive? I never had such a problem before. I'll move around my drives and see what happens. Thanks for your help. -- Peter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com