Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:33:10 +0200 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA troubles Message-ID: <4E2D0E26.9070608@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <4E2CBCAB.1070209@dichotomia.fr> References: <4E2CB198.9010601@netfence.it> <4E2CBCAB.1070209@dichotomia.fr>
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On 07/25/11 02:45, Jerome Herman wrote: >> At the beginning of June, I installed two WD 1TB Caviar Green SATA >> > Just a shot in the dark : are your drives of the "green" kind ? Such as > Western Digital Caviar Green ? Exactly. I disabled the idle timer though. > Also since they are ATA drives make sure you are using 80pins ribbons > and that DMA is properly activated in BIOS. They are SATA drives. > You can also try to reduce DMA level, it must be on UDMA5 by default, > try using UDMA 4 (aka UDMA/66) or UDMA 3. Does this apply to SATA? How would I do that? bye & Thanks av.
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