From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 21 10:20:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E688737B403 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 10:20:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f6LHGsO01272; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 13:16:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B59B9D2.59BD4BE8@iowna.com> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 13:20:18 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oscar Ricardo Silva Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to change UDMA mode on ata drives References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010721114410.00a3e860@mail.utexas.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, this is a ibm-dtla-307075, I haven't been able to find the utilities you speak of yet, but I'm still looking. Do you have a suggestion on how to navigate IBMs site ;) I'm pretty lost. I managed to find the "drive fitness test" which I'll be downloading to test the drive, but haven't found any utilities to change the ata mode yet. Thanks, Bill Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote: > > Some drive manufacturers provide utilities that will do > this. Unfortunately, I've only seen them have utils that work under either > DOS or Linux (so you would need a DOS boot disk). I know IBM provides this > for their Deskstar drives. Have you checked the web site for you drive > manufacturer? > > Oscar > > At 09:46 AM 07/21/2001 -0400, Bill Moran, you wrote: > >I've got an ata100 drive that's buggy under ata100. I want to throttle it > >back to ata66 mode to see if the problem still exists. How is this done? > > > >-Bill > > > >-- > >It may be that true happiness is nothing more than the ability to *always* > >know the right thing to say at the right time, whereas true misery is the > >state of perpetually saying to oneself, "What I *should* have said was..." > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- It may be that true happiness is nothing more than the ability to *always* know the right thing to say at the right time, whereas true misery is the state of perpetually saying to oneself, "What I *should* have said was..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message