On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:30, someone, possibly Soeren Schmidt, typed: > > Strange, I was told 30cm emphatically by our local techie, but Søren > > did write the driver, so he's probably more correct than my techie. My > > mistake > > > > :) > > Well, point him at the ATA specs :)
It seems he was reading some manufacturor's "own version" of the specs, we just checked the official specs and you are right :) > > Søren, what else could be causing this? On bootup, Len's system complains: > > > ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device > > > ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device > > This is because the cblid bit in the disks indicate that the disk doesn't > see the right cable (or rather the right signals it tests for). > Since I dont have a dmesg from the system I dont know if there are other > devices on the cable than the disks, as the most usual culprit here is > an ATAPI device that doesn't like UDMA. Len, post dmesg? :) -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
