On Tuesday 17 September 2002 11:46 am, Jim Durham wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm using an AOPEN AK77PRO motherboard with 4.7 PRERELEASE. > > The ATA controller (VIA 8233) is not show on the freebsd.org web > site as a supported chipset. Is this correct? I have reason to > believe not, as a friend with a local ISP is running several of > these motherboards with -STABLE (with ATA-100 mode). > > The problem I'm having is that the Maxtor 6L080J4 ATA-133 drives > are being recognized as UDMA33 with the message "non-ATA66 cable or > device". > > the ata(4) man page indicates that you can force the controller to > change modes with "sysctl hw.atamodes". Inputting this to sysctl > results in "unknown oid 'hw.atamodes'. > > The ata(4) man page is apparently wrong, so how can I change the > mode manually? I'd be happy to settle for ATA-100. > > (Yes, I'm using 80 wire cables!) >
I got it working. Apparently this controller cares about the order of devices plugged in, ie; I had the Cd in ide0 and the two 80 gig drives in ide1. Reversing the cables and editing /etc/fstab made it work. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth, but this was not something I expected. -jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
