Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:59:20 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Rich Wales <richw@webcom.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA66 cable being ignored? Message-ID: <v04210101b5c72eedaee8@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200008211670886.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu> References: <200008211670886.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu>
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At 10:03 AM -0700 8/21/00, Rich Wales wrote: >My new Dell OptiPlex GX300 (running 4.1-RELEASE) came with an 80-wire >ATA cable. I added a second drive and am using this cable for both >drives. However, the kernel fails to recognize the cable and is limit- >ing DMA speed accordingly. Any ideas? > >See below for the relevant portion of the "boot -v" output. I note the >"cblid=0" value -- leading me to wonder if the problem might possibly >be with the integrated ATA controller on the motherboard not sensing or >reporting the cable properly. This is an 800-MHz Pentium III system, >though, so I find it a bit hard to believe that it isn't UDMA66-capable. > >======================================================================== > >. . . >atapci0: <Intel ICH ATA66 controller> port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device >31.1 on pci0 >ata0: iobase=0x01f0 altiobase=0x03f6 bmaddr=0xffa0 >ata0: mask=03 status0=50 status1=50 >ata0: mask=03 status0=50 status1=50 >ata0: devices = 0x3 >ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 >. . . >ata0-master: DMA limitted to UDMA33, non-ATA66 compliant cable >ata0-master: success setting up UDMA2 mode on ICH chip > >======================================================================== For what it's worth, I have been seeing this too. In my case I have two IDE controllers, one on the motherboard, and the other a PCI card from Promise. I'm pretty sure the cable is correct, although I haven't actually ripped the machine apart again to check it... In my case, I'm running 4.1-release --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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