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Subject: Re: VIA 8237 under FreeBSD 4.11
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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