On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:43:48PM -0700, Cliff L. Biffle wrote: > On Sunday 08 December 2002 03:28 pm, Bruce Cran wrote: > > I've got a A7V-266E motherboard with a KT266A chipset. The > > solution in my case was to tell the BIOS I didn't have any ATAPI drives. > > FreeBSD then found everything properly, without any problems - I think > > the BIOS was maybe configuring the master for UDMA33 and the slave for > > PIO4, whereas FreeBSD seems to prefer them both as PIO4, > > That just about makes sense, with the weirdnesses I've seen with this mobo in > the past. I'll give that a go and let y'all know what I find. I've got the > ATACD on its own channel because I've hit issues in the past with having a > DMA and PIO device on the same channel with this controller, but from reading > my boot messages this morning my CD drive thinks it supports UDMA 33. Go > fig. > > I should probably also sup the machine past DP2, but it's just been so > wonderfully stable...I'm so used to using -stable that this feels like > pushing my luck. :-)
Your CD drive should indeed support UDMA33 - my DVD drive supports UDMA33, and my CDRW supports multi-word DMA, even though my BIOS only ever configures it for PIO4, and my DVD for UDMA33. FreeBSD only ever configures them for PIO during bootup, but, using the atacontrol program, it configures them both for maximum speed, even knowing they _can_ only do UDMA33,WDMA2. -- Bruce Cran To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
