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Date:      Wed, 7 Mar 2007 13:45:59 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        ian j hart <ianjhart@ntlworld.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, Artem Kuchin <matrix@itlegion.ru>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is SATA II supported in 6.2-stable?
Message-ID:  <20070307214559.GA77796@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <200703072126.40143.ianjhart@ntlworld.com>
References:  <20070227205351.GA72597@ravenloft.kiev.ua> <45ED35F2.9080505@tomjudge.com> <00e001c75fe2$0f3f4200$0c00a8c0@Artem> <200703072126.40143.ianjhart@ntlworld.com>

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On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:26:40PM +0000, ian j hart wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 March 2007 11:06, Artem Kuchin wrote:
> > Mar  6 14:00:09 aaa kernel: ad8: 305245MB <Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAE> at
> > ata4-master SATA150 Mar  6 14:00:09 aaa kernel: ad10: 305245MB <Seagate
> > ST3320620AS 3.AAE> at ata5-master SATA150
> 
> IIRC those drives ship jumpered down to SATA150. Worth checking.

That's correct.  There's an incredibly tiny jumper on the jumper
block which limits the transfer speed to 1.5gbit/sec (SATA150).
Remove the jumper and you've got SATA300.

The official product manual for this drive:

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/manuals/Desktop/Barracuda%207200.10/100402371e.pdf

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                 jdc at parodius.com |
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