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Date:      Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:18:33 -0700
From:      Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@macguire.net>
To:        Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@macguire.net>
Cc:        ScaryG <freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu>, 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:  <20020416181833.K23267@rain.macguire.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020416181504.J23267@rain.macguire.net>; from benjamin@macguire.net on Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 06:15:04PM -0700
References:  <20020416195159.08971c73.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> <200204170103.g3H13mJ14610@celebris.tddhome> <20020416211311.3ecbaefc.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> <20020416181504.J23267@rain.macguire.net>

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* Benjamin Krueger (benjamin@macguire.net) [020416 18:15]:
> * 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.

That'll teach me to forget earlier parts of the thread. You mentioned your
mainboard only does 33, so I guess a pci controller is in your future. =)

-- 
Benjamin Krueger

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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