Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:44:48 -0400 From: koroby398@netscape.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dmesg: poor ATA cable Message-ID: <64E21CF6.0EDAC2A8.0323C132@netscape.net> References: <4E0F1C3D.2BD13DE3.0323C132@netscape.net> <011f01c0f16c$3060dbf0$0200a8c0@mark2>
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"Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk> wrote: > > > getting this at start-up: > > > > ata0-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 compliant cable > > ad0: 57241MB <WDC WD600AB-00BVA0> [116301/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 > > ad2: 19574MB <IBM-DPTA-372050> [39770/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA66 > > acd0: DVD-ROM <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1402> at ata0-slave using PIO4 > > acd1: CD-RW <CR-48X5TE> at ata1-slave using PIO4 > > > > swapped cables, replaced cables - result was the same. tried 4 cables. > > Have Win2K, Debian and Solaris 8 on the same box, they all seem to be happy with the > cable. Probably missing obvious. Thanks for help in advance. > > I know this sounds stupid (slap me for sounding patronising if i do, I'm sorry), but have > you got an 80-conductor ATA66 (or ATA100) cable, rather than a 40 (or possibly 41) > conductor ATA33 (or below) cable? > > Sorry again if i'm stating the obvious here, but i know all too well what it's like to not > realise the little things :+) > > Hope this helps, > Mark it's an 80 wire cable, all of the ones I tried are. I also tried two that come with Promise cards. The only thing I don't really like myself is that this particular cable has to be twisted twice due to drives' locations. And it's not on backwards either. Anyway, other than that everything seems to be fine :) __________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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