It seems Len Conrad wrote:
>
> > > > ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
> > > > ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
> >
> >This is because the cblid bit in the disks indicate that the disk doesn't
> >see the right cable (or rather the right signals it tests for
> > ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
> > ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
This is because the cblid bit in the disks indicate that the disk doesn't
see the right cable (or rather the right signals it tests for).
Since I dont have a dmesg from the system I
mx# dmesg
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On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:30, someone, possibly Soeren Schmidt, typed:
> > Strange, I was told 30cm emphatically by our local techie, but Søren
> > did write the driver, so he's probably more correct than my techie. My
> > mistake
> >
> > :)
>
> Well, point him at the ATA specs :)
It seems h
It seems Willie Viljoen wrote:
> On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:08, someone, possibly Soeren Schmidt, typed:
> > > I've already thought of that and the guy on site says the Promise
> > > cables are 18 inches.
> >
> > Which is just about right...
> >
> > -Søren
>
> Strange, I was told 30cm emphati
On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:08, someone, possibly Soeren Schmidt, typed:
> > I've already thought of that and the guy on site says the Promise
> > cables are 18 inches.
>
> Which is just about right...
>
> -Søren
Strange, I was told 30cm emphatically by our local techie, but Søren did
write t
It seems Len Conrad wrote:
>
> >There are two things you might want to look at. First it trying to set the
> >modes manually after boot. This is not recommended, and I would not do it
> >unless on a read only file system, if setting the higher mode fails, or
> >fails partially, you might be in for
There are two things you might want to look at. First it trying to set the
modes manually after boot. This is not recommended, and I would not do it
unless on a read only file system, if setting the higher mode fails, or
fails partially, you might be in for a world of trouble. To do this, you
can
On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:43, someone, possibly Willie Viljoen, typed:
> On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:31, someone, possibly Len Conrad, typed:
> > >The ata driver is quite strict on standards implementation. It could
> > > be that the promise cables may not comply as strictly with the
> >
