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 Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 00:47:39, sos (Soren Schmidt) wrote about "Re: cable detection": 

>> I have a junky machine with a UDMA-33 cable between a UDMA-66
>> controller and drives.   Using a year old -current, the ATA driver 
>> complains that the cables aren't capable of UDMA66 operation, and
>> throttles things back to UDMA33.
>> 
>> Using -current from ~1 week ago,  this no longer happens and I get:

SS> No, I was under the impression that it worked on the ICH, I'll check
SS> docs and code again...

It doesn't work correctly at least on some systems with ICH,
see my report (<20031123231040.GA375@iv.nn.kiev.ua>) to current@ one
month ago. After it I switched to 80-pin cable and this fixed the
problem personally for me, but not for 40-pin cables.


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