From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 19 21:30: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from transbay.net (dns1.transbay.net [209.133.53.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D7137B479 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 21:30:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from transbay.net (rigel.transbay.net [209.133.53.177]) by transbay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA73846; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 21:29:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39EFCD92.FDD52B34@transbay.net> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 21:44:02 -0700 From: UCTC Sysadmin Organization: UC Telecommunications Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ahze@baddog.yi.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DMA66/33 ? References: <20001020010448.F18DF1D89@baddog.yi.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mike johnson wrote: > > Durring the boot I get this message > > ata0-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 compliant cable > > Does this mean if i get a cable that can handle DMA 66 I can have 66 vs 33? Probably. Also the BIOS should report what it's using before you even get to the OS. The 66-cables are stiff, with a blue connector to plug into the motherboard, reasonably easy to distinguish from normal IDE cables. Also if you look closely you will see one wire notched out for a length of about 4mm towards one end of the cable (a hole in the cable.) Remember to plug a slave drive in the MIDDLE and the master at the END. Don't leave the end unplugged if the middle connector is used. It didn't used to matter but now it does, or it could. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message