Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 12:00:33 +0100 (CET) From: Mats Larsson <myrslok@marvin.sko.mh.se> To: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to make ATA-100 work under stable ? Message-ID: <20030131115539.L8597@marvin.sko.mh.se> In-Reply-To: <E18eYVc-0007xq-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk> References: <E18eYVc-0007xq-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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Hello! Once owned a MSI 694D PRO, on that only 2 ide ports was able to support udma 100 and the two other only 33/66, my card worked nicely in udma 100 if a switched port. // Mats On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Pete French wrote: > So, for the first time in my life I find myself going out and buying > an ATA drive (no space for a SCSI controller). Since I've more or > less ignored these drives until now I'm not finding it and easy (or > pleasent) experience. But have finally got to the point when its installed, > running 4.7-STABLE without complaining about implausible disc geometries > and generally seems O.K. > > What I *cant* seem to do is to make it run at UDMA100 speed - it always > seems to do UDMA66. Whats the magic incantation under -STABLE to make it > work ? I did try 'atacontrol mode ata0 udma100' but that just > tells me that its not supported by the hardware. > > The hardware in question is a Seagate BarracudaATA IV - I've run the Seagate > utility to set the drive to report itself as UDMA100 capable, I have installed > the 80 way ribbon connector and I have (as a last resort) flashed the > BIOS on the motherboard. The board itself is a Microstar dual PIII board, > and the drive controller appears to be called a "Promise" something > or other. > > I have noticed that the BIOS on the controller says it is searching > for ATA-100 drives, but does not find any. On the other hand I assume that > BSD is not using the BIOS, so I am not sure if thats relevent. > > Any ideas ? Is there soome kernel option for UDMA 100 that I am missing ? > > -pcf. [this is the first and last time I venture out of SCSI-land!] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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