On Saturday 21 October 2006 23:46, Juha Saarinen wrote: > On 10/22/06, David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dell PowerEdge 400SC, 6.2-PRERELEASE (altho this is an old issue) > > > > dmesg says: > > > > acd0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable > > acd0: DVDR <LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S/BS0K> at ata1-master UDMA33 > > cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers > > > > The controller is properly probed as, "atapci0: <Intel ICH5 > > UDMA100 controller>" > > > > This DVD isn't writing discs as fast as other brands on other > > machines and OS's (such as MacOS X). Lite-On has a newer firmware > > that I have not tried. But first was checking for any sort of > > errors or irregularities and came across this mismatch. > > > > Lite-On says "Supported transfer mode : PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 > > and Ultra DMA mode 2", so is there something I should do to my > > FreeBSD to make this device happier? > > Try a different cable?
It's not going to come up faster than UDMA33....and even if it did UDMA33 is far faster than a DVD burner. What sort of write performance are you getting? -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
