Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:04:46 -0800 From: Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIA 8237 under FreeBSD 4.11 Message-ID: <1132632286.4202.7.camel@home-desk> In-Reply-To: <200511221424.54872.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <1132629660.4202.3.camel@home-desk> <200511221424.54872.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 14:24 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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 then > the whole PC will lock up because the OS isn't polling the error register.. > Bummer...Is this a general issue of the way 4.X handles SATA? I.e. Would the ICH5 work any better to your knowledge? Sean
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