Re: Post HW-upgrade: UDMA problemer

From: Vadim Belman (none@voland--lflat.org.lh.bsd-dk.dk)
Date: Sat 09 Jun 2001 - 12:29:21 CEST


Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 12:29:21 +0200
From: Vadim Belman <none@voland--lflat.org.lh.bsd-dk.dk>
To: bsd-dk@bsd-dk.dk
Subject: Re: Post HW-upgrade: UDMA problemer

On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 11:13:08AM +0200, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:

> > I'm assuming the old motherboard wasn't ATA100 capable, so if you took
> > out the old IDE cable and used that in the new one things have been
> > known to go haywire for pure hardware reasons (though nothing to worry
> > about). So ATA100 compliant IDE cable should leave things fine.
>
> That would explain it, yes. But I was under the impression that using an
> ordinary IDE-cable would just limit you to UDMA/33, which would be the
> solution when not running a ATA66/100 compliant OS?

        Might be a stupidity of the drive which would still try working in
UDMA66 mode. Or, it could be related to this:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=476491+477576+/usr/local/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-current/20000903.freebsd-current

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  It seems that the DJNA series of IBM disks has some problems
  with tagged queueing, but at least the DPTA and DTLA series
  are known to work. The older DTTA series has not been tested
  yet.
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    /Voland			Vadim Belman
				E-mail: voland@lflat.org



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