Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:11:48 -0500 (CDT) From: John Utz <john@utzweb.net> To: atk2@arctic.org Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, <gabriel@maquina.com> Subject: Re: UDMA performance suggestionsRe: Athlon XP with NVIDIA AGP problem Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204261408590.755-100000@jupiter.linuxengine.net> In-Reply-To: <20020426190009.31984.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org>
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i wish to gently disagree, but you still might be right.... On 26 Apr 2002 atk2@arctic.org wrote: > Hum -- I should have been very specific -- the bios indicates the drive is > enabled for udma 6 (aka ata-133). The bios only indicatest this if everything > else is set correctly (aka cable, master, ... -- I tested this aspect > of the bios). i seem to recall that my bios was perfectly content to tell me that i was doing UDMA, so i thougt it was ok. but 4.4 actually had a boot message that said 'reverting to wdma33, the cable is on backwards' or something like that. > So the only issue left is freebsd (I have not tried atacontrol which I will > try tonight). certainly seems like the easiest thing to do, i agree on that case.... > ||From john@utzweb.net Fri Apr 26 11:39:36 2002 > ||Status: R > > > ||hi; > > ||On 26 Apr 2002 atk2@arctic.org wrote: > > ||> (btw if anyone has suggestions for enabling udma drop a note !) > > ||make sure that you have the newer 80pin cable, and that you have it put on > ||in the right direction ( there is a device end and a board end ) and that > ||you dont have a non udma device on the same cable. > > ||i could be wrong about the last bit, but i got it to work when i did all > ||of the above. i stuck my 24x cdrom on ide1 and left my udma100 > ||hard drive on ide0. note that i only get udma66 because that's all that my > ||ASUS CUSI-FX mboard supports :-( > > ||and make sure that the drive isnt set to Chip Select (CS). well, heck, > ||that might not matter either, but this is the process that i go thru when > ||drives dont cooperate with me > > ||-- > > ||John L. Utz III > ||john@utzweb.net > > ||Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life > -- John L. Utz III john@utzweb.net Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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