Re: Serial ATA support in FreeBSD

2003-03-17 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Matthew Emmerton wrote: Received no responses the first time, so am trying again. - I am in the process of building a new system and was looking at using the new Seagate Barracuda Serial ATA drives. Does

Re: Serial ATA support in FreeBSD

2003-03-17 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Mark Jacobs wrote: Currently the only (known) support SATA controllers are the Highpoint 15x0 series (they are just old PATA chips with PATA - SATA converters). Are you offering to donate a SATA controller / SATA-equipped motherboard to Soren to make this a reality? g That

Re: can't get to ATA133 (Addendum to previous post)

2003-02-28 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Len Conrad wrote: 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

Re: ATA RAID Suggestions / can't get to ATA133

2003-02-28 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Len Conrad wrote: False alert! On a hint from Soeren Schmidt, we looked at the Promise ATA cables. The 1U box integrator had reversed the cable, controller-end to disk, and disk-end to controller. With great difficulty, due to the cable routing having the middle ATA

Re: can't get to ATA133 (Addendum to previous post)

2003-02-27 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Len Conrad wrote: There are two things you might want to look at. First it trying to set the modes manually after boot. This is not recommended, and I would not do it unless on a read only file system, if setting the higher mode fails, or fails partially, you might be in for a world

Re: can't get to ATA133 (Addendum to previous post)

2003-02-27 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Willie Viljoen wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:08, someone, possibly Soeren Schmidt, typed: I've already thought of that and the guy on site says the Promise cables are 18 inches. Which is just about right... -Søren Strange, I was told 30cm emphatically by our