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Date:      Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:14:29 +0100 (CET)
From:      Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
To:        Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ATA RAID Suggestions / can't get to ATA133
Message-ID:  <200302281914.h1SJETR1096865@spider.deepcore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030228112607.06000a68@mail.go2france.com>

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It seems Len Conrad wrote:
> False alert!
> 
> On a hint from Soeren Schmidt, we looked at the Promise ATA cables.  The 1U 
> box integrator had reversed the cable,  controller-end to disk, and 
> disk-end to controller.
> 
> With great difficulty, due to the cable routing having the middle ATA 
> connector falling right on a too-small feedthrough hole (could explain why 
> the integrator reversed the cable in the first place. it's a "reversible" 
> flat cable after all!!), we got the cable connected controller-end to 
> controller, and disk-end to disk and dmesg now shows;
> 
> ar0: 39083MB <ATA SPAN array> [4982/255/63] status: READY subdisks:
>   0 READY ad4: 39083MB <Maxtor 6Y040L0> [79408/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA133
> 
> ar1: 39083MB <ATA SPAN array> [4982/255/63] status: READY subdisks:
>   0 READY ad6: 39083MB <Maxtor 6Y040L0> [79408/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA133
> 
> Thanks Soeren!!

Glad to be of help :) let me know if other problems show up!

-Søren

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