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Date:      Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:38:42 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Str=F6m?= <johan@stromnet.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Page fault, GEOM problem??
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On 23 jan 2006, at 20.16, Paul T. Root wrote:
> My friends disks are SATA. The jumper was to force
> the drives to use the SATA 1.x 1.5 gig standard instead
> of the faster SATA 2.x standard. Older cards can have
> trouble recognizing newer disks.
>
> His were recognized, but very flaky. They've been solid
> since.
>

These disk should be SATA150 afaik (Maxtor MaXLine III 300Gb).
The promise card is named SATAII 150..
So shouldnt be any missmatching. Both card and disks supports NCQ..  
Dunno about freebsd on the other hand..Havent found a way to enable/ 
disable this


> Johan Ström wrote:
>
>> On 23 jan 2006, at 15.29, Paul T. Root wrote:
>>
>>> I'm coming in very late here, and only have some
>>> hearsay. But, a friend of mine has built a new hobby
>>> machine, with twin 160G drives on a 3Ware 8006, working as
>>> a stripe. He had a bunch of problems with stability of the drives
>>> until I gave him a couple of tiny (half size) jumpers, that he
>>> put on the drive. Smooth sailing since them. If needed, I can find
>>> what the jumpers did. But looking through the controllers doco
>>> should give you a clue.
>>>
>> As far as I know, SATA drives doesnt have jumpers.. Mine doesnt  
>> seem to do atleast.. There are two unused pins but i doubt they  
>> are for jumpers..
>>
>
> -- 
> Paul Root
> "Few people know what to do when hula girls attack." - Sam, age 8
>
>



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