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Date:      Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:36:08 +0200
From:      Willie Viljoen <will@unfoldings.net>
To:        Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
Cc:        Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: can't get to ATA133 (Addendum to previous post)
Message-ID:  <200302271136.08077.will@unfoldings.net>
In-Reply-To: <200302270930.h1R9UqOc087155@spider.deepcore.dk>
References:  <200302270930.h1R9UqOc087155@spider.deepcore.dk>

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On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:30, someone, possibly Soeren Schmidt, typed:
> > Strange, I was told 30cm emphatically by our local techie, but S=F8ren
> > did write the driver, so he's probably more correct than my techie. My
> > mistake
> >
> > :)
>
> Well, point him at the ATA specs :)

It seems he was reading some manufacturor's "own version" of the specs, we=
=20
just checked the official specs and you are right :)

> > S=F8ren, what else could be causing this? On bootup, Len's system=20
complains:
> > > ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
> > > ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
>
> This is because the cblid bit in the disks indicate that the disk doesn't
> see the right cable (or rather the right signals it tests for).
> Since I dont have a dmesg from the system I dont know if there are other
> devices on the cable than the disks, as the most usual culprit here is
> an ATAPI device that doesn't like UDMA.

Len, post dmesg? :)

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