Hopefully sos reads this list? Following up my own note - I see the following in the code, none of which came out in my verbose dmesg: .... if (bootverbose) ata_printf(scp, device, "%s setting UDMA2 on Cyrix chip\n", (error) ? "failed" : "success"); .... if (bootverbose) ata_printf(scp, device, "%s setting WDMA2 on Cyrix chip\n", (error) ? "failed" : "success"); .... if (bootverbose) ata_printf(scp, device, "%s setting %s on Cyrix chip\n", (error) ? "failed" : "success", ata_mode2str(ata_pio2mode(apiomode))); That implies that either: 1. the device type didn't get preserved between the initial probe where it shows up, and the drive probes where the device type is apparently missed. 2. ata_dmainit() didn't get called at all, or the 3 integer args were not the same as those printed in the verbose output... AFAIK this drive is only a udma2 device but may be 4; the controller is certainly only udma2. -- Pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message