On 23 jan 2006, at 20.16, Paul T. Root wrote:
My friends disks are SATA. The jumper was to force
the drives to use the SATA 1.x 1.5 gig standard instead
of the faster SATA 2.x standard. Older cards can have
trouble recognizing newer disks.

His were recognized, but very flaky. They've been solid
since.


These disk should be SATA150 afaik (Maxtor MaXLine III 300Gb).
The promise card is named SATAII 150..
So shouldnt be any missmatching. Both card and disks supports NCQ.. Dunno about freebsd on the other hand..Havent found a way to enable/ disable this


Johan Ström wrote:

On 23 jan 2006, at 15.29, Paul T. Root wrote:

I'm coming in very late here, and only have some
hearsay. But, a friend of mine has built a new hobby
machine, with twin 160G drives on a 3Ware 8006, working as
a stripe. He had a bunch of problems with stability of the drives
until I gave him a couple of tiny (half size) jumpers, that he
put on the drive. Smooth sailing since them. If needed, I can find
what the jumpers did. But looking through the controllers doco
should give you a clue.

As far as I know, SATA drives doesnt have jumpers.. Mine doesnt seem to do atleast.. There are two unused pins but i doubt they are for jumpers..


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Paul Root
"Few people know what to do when hula girls attack." - Sam, age 8




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