From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 22 02:15:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 429EF16A407 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:15:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: from bee.hiwaay.net (bee.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D4ED43D67 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:15:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: from [10.0.0.2] ([216.186.148.249]) (authenticated bits=0) by bee.hiwaay.net (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9M2Exd31262531 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:15:02 -0500 (CDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <726CFBB1-2BB1-42A5-8A8F-96B880D316A3@HiWAAY.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: FreeBSD Questions From: David Kelly Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:15:00 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Cc: Subject: non-ATA66 cable? 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: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:15:05 -0000 Dell PowerEdge 400SC, 6.2-PRERELEASE (altho this is an old issue) dmesg says: acd0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable acd0: DVDR at ata1-master UDMA33 cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers The controller is properly probed as, "atapci0: " This DVD isn't writing discs as fast as other brands on other machines and OS's (such as MacOS X). Lite-On has a newer firmware that I have not tried. But first was checking for any sort of errors or irregularities and came across this mismatch. Lite-On says "Supported transfer mode : PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 and Ultra DMA mode 2", so is there something I should do to my FreeBSD to make this device happier? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.