Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:54:01 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> Cc: d@delphij.net, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu>, "Sean C. Farley" <scf@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Wiki for discussing P35/IHC9(R)/SATA issues set up Message-ID: <47308E19.70507@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20071106153509.GB91218@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <200711041119.45971.jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> <472DD231.9030501@gmail.com> <472E67CC.9040201@delphij.net> <472E4FF0.3080801@gmail.com> <472EB211.7050001@delphij.net> <472EEADF.1000008@gmail.com> <472F466E.8050405@delphij.net> <472F5846.1020304@gmail.com> <472F5D9A.9050900@delphij.net> <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0711051555550.45185@thor.farley.org> <20071106153509.GB91218@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:37:27AM -0600, Sean C. Farley wrote: >> 1. Dell Optiplex 745: >> ATA channel 2: >> Master: ad4 <WDC WD800JD-75MSA3/10.01E04> Serial ATA II >> Slave: no device present > > Intel Q965 + ICH8, which does SATA300. atacontrol output proves the > disk is capable of SATA300 (re: "Serial ATA II"), but for some reason > it's not. > SATA II does not automatically mean 3GHz link speed. It's just an umbrella term meaning that the drive implements one or more features defined in SATA-2. It's similar to the mis-representation in the USB world of what USB 2.0 means. > This one is indeed odd and needs investigation. > >> 2. Asus P5K-E/WiFi: >> ad10: 152627MB <Seagate ST3160827AS 3.42> at ata5-master SATA150 >> ad12: 152627MB <Seagate ST3160827AS 3.42> at ata6-master SATA150 >> ATA channel 5: >> Master: ad10 <ST3160827AS/3.42> Serial ATA v1.0 >> Slave: no device present >> ATA channel 6: >> Master: ad12 <ST3160827AS/3.42> Serial ATA v1.0 >> Slave: no device present > > Intel P35 + ICH9. The chipset does SATA300 but your disks do not -- > they are Barracuda 7200.7 disks, which support SATA150 maximum. > However, the motherboard also has a JMicron controller on it. > > After looking at http://www.farley.org/freebsd/tmp/SATA/dmesg-asus.boot, > it's easy to determine that your SATA150 disks are connected to the ICH9 > controller (which is being reported at ICH8 for some reason; maybe a > chipset ID thing). They are not connected to the JMicron, so the > SATA150 limitation here is caused by the disks. > > The SATA ATAPI errors you see are something I can't really help with, > many see these kinds of messages on all sorts of hardware. > There seems to be a lot of differing technical opinions on SATA-ATAPI support in FreeBSD. I'll be digging more into it shortly, but probably not in time for the 7.0 release. Scott
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