Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:15:04 -0700 From: Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@macguire.net> To: ScaryG <freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> Cc: User Tomdean <tomdean@speakeasy.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DMS limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 compliant cable error msg Message-ID: <20020416181504.J23267@rain.macguire.net> In-Reply-To: <20020416211311.3ecbaefc.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu>; from freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu on Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:13:11PM -0400 References: <20020416195159.08971c73.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> <200204170103.g3H13mJ14610@celebris.tddhome> <20020416211311.3ecbaefc.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu>
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* ScaryG (freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu) [020416 18:12]: > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:03:48 -0700 (PDT) > User Tomdean <tomdean@speakeasy.org> wrote: > > > Do you have an 80-wire cable with a 40-pin connector on it? A > > 40-wire, 40-pin connector cable is 33 > > No, it's a plain jane 40-pin cable. I guess I should have researched > things before I bought this new spiffy drive. > > But the drive does work -- I just can't get it to dump data to the cd-rom > burner. > > The line from dmesg indicates the IDE controller only support ATA > > atapci0: <Intel PIIX3 ATA controller> > > Another person responded that there are some cheap Promise ATA66 > Controllers I can plug in. Would that be a good solution? > > Funny thing is, the back of the drive fits a 40-pin cable just fine. I'm > always using the 'older' stuff so I don't even know what the ATA66 cables > look like. > > BTW: The new drive is a Maxtor 4D040H2 [79408/16/63] at ata0-master WDMA2 > > I guess I should look up the stats for the drive as well. > > -gf If the motherboard ide chipset supports ata66, you shouldn't need a pci controller. Old regular IDE cables do look nearly the same as newer ata66 cables, however they're manufactured to different specifications, and physically the ata66 cables are thinner. There are also ata100 and I assume now ata133 cables too. Anyway, all you should need to do is get yourself a compliant ata66 cable. -- Benjamin Krueger "Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about." - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Send mail w/ subject 'send public key' or query for (0x251A4B18) Fingerprint = A642 F299 C1C1 C828 F186 A851 CFF0 7711 251A 4B18 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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