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Date:      Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:31:42 -0400
From:      Jim Durham <jimd@nepinc.com>
To:        durham@jcdurham.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATA 133 Drives on 4.7-PRERELEASE
Message-ID:  <200209171731.43185.jimd@nepinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <200209171146.39355.durham@jcdurham.com>
References:  <200209171146.39355.durham@jcdurham.com>

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On Tuesday 17 September 2002 11:46 am, Jim Durham wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm using an AOPEN AK77PRO motherboard with 4.7 PRERELEASE.
>
> The ATA controller (VIA 8233) is not show on the freebsd.org web
> site as a supported chipset. Is this correct? I have reason to
> believe not, as a friend with a local ISP is running several of
> these motherboards with -STABLE (with ATA-100 mode).
>
> The problem I'm having is that the Maxtor 6L080J4 ATA-133 drives
> are being recognized as UDMA33 with the message "non-ATA66 cable or
> device".
>
> the ata(4) man page indicates that you can force the controller to
> change modes with "sysctl hw.atamodes". Inputting this to sysctl
> results in "unknown oid 'hw.atamodes'.
>
> The ata(4) man page is apparently wrong, so how can I change the
> mode manually? I'd be happy to settle for ATA-100.
>
> (Yes, I'm using 80 wire cables!)
>

I got it working. Apparently this controller cares about the order of=20
devices plugged in, ie; I had the Cd in ide0 and the two 80 gig=20
drives in ide1. Reversing the cables and editing /etc/fstab made it
work. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth, but this was not something I
expected.
-jim


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