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From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
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Subject: Re: no cable, but "DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found
	non-ATA66 cable"
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 07:44:31PM +0100, Pete French wrote:
> ...
> Is there a way to turn the test off 
> ...

Try setting the following in /boot/loader.conf:

hw.ata.ata_dma_check_80pin="0"

You can see the description of this, and other tunables, in the ata(4)
man page.

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