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

2003-02-28 Thread Len Conrad
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

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

2003-02-27 Thread Willie Viljoen
On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:43, someone, possibly Willie Viljoen, typed: On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:31, someone, possibly Len Conrad, typed: The ata driver is quite strict on standards implementation. It could be that the promise cables may not comply as strictly with the

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

2003-02-27 Thread Len Conrad
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 of trouble. To do this, you can

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 Willie Viljoen
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 local techie, but Søren did write the

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

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

2003-02-27 Thread Willie Viljoen
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

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

2003-02-27 Thread Len Conrad
mx# dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 9 15:08:34 GMT 2002 [EMAIL