From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 03:55:05 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC3DC16A41F for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 03:55:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7BC443D66 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 03:55:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp212-204.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.212.204]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jAM3t0aT058040 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:25:02 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:24:54 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <1132629660.4202.3.camel@home-desk> In-Reply-To: <1132629660.4202.3.camel@home-desk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4495593.Hh0zkQp8ED"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200511221424.54872.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0.05 () FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Sean Bruno Subject: Re: VIA 8237 under FreeBSD 4.11 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 03:55:06 -0000 --nextPart4495593.Hh0zkQp8ED Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:51, Sean Bruno wrote: > I'm looking for some information on the VIA 8237 SATA controller under > 4.11. It does indeed work as advertised, but the Abit VA-20 Mobo I am > using seems to be causing the two SATA disks to be detected at a speed > of UDMA 66, not 150. > > Do I have to modify the settings on the driver when I compile it to get > better speed reports, or is this nothing to worry about? 4.x doesn't really support SATA as such. It will use them in some sort of backwards compatible way. In general it will probably work OK until you get an SATA PHY error and the= n=20 the whole PC will lock up because the OS isn't polling the error register.. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart4495593.Hh0zkQp8ED Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDgpaO5ZPcIHs/zowRAtWIAJ9iWwggfrFmQZYtecn9Z73ZJIokXwCgicfJ ZN7g0M8QoaOVx7zil1mBw8s= =FMhu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4495593.Hh0zkQp8ED--