An addition: On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:46:17 -0600, Programmer In Training <[email protected]> wrote: > [r...@heaven]dmesg -a | grep acd > acd0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable > acd0: DVDR <HP DVD Writer 1040r/MH21> at ata1-master UDMA33 > > Thoughts?
You're using a 40-pin ATA cable. Replace it with an "80-pin" (every 2nd wire is "shield", still only 40 pins on the connector) cable which is "finer". This way the drive can be accessed faster than UDMA33. Looks like this: % dmesg | grep acd acd0: DVDR <HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GSA-H58N/1.01> at ata1-master UDMA66 -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
