Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 23:19:05 +0100 (CET) From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: David Loszewski <stealth215@mediaone.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: harddrive error Message-ID: <20011117231513.V38627-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> In-Reply-To: <000601c16fb3$bd50c1e0$3000b1d8@sickness>
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On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, David Loszewski wrote: > Yea, I'm just using a normal 33/66 cable, I'd assume that it's 80 pin > since it's just a normal IDE cable. Well, I guess if I said "normal" IDE cable, I'd be referring to a standard 40-pin/40-conductor cable. The cable needed for UDMA66 and up is actually 40-pin/80-conductors, with the additional 40 conductors being used for shielding purposes (technically correct? I think so, but I sometimes tend to mess up details ;-) > This harddrive did work on one of my other machines so I'll try the > new cable when I get home. Is FreeBSD really sensitive when it comes > to what cables you use?? I would think that a cable that doesn't work wouldn't work under any OS, as long as that US actually makes use of your HDDs UDMA mode. I cannot imagine that you can actually have a cable that works with a drive in UDMA mode on every OS except for FreeBSD, but I currently cannot prove this ;-) Greetings Nils Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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