Yes, I always see this same thing if I place an older CD-ROM slave on the
same cable. It drops to UDMA33. If I remove the CD-ROM, then the systme
sees the cable fine as ATA100. If I then put my new CD-ROM on the cable, it
likes that too.

At 12:04 AM 1.22.2002 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Dmitry Valdov wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Bill Moran wrote:
>> > > FreeBSD limits both
>> > > drives on the bus because there is 'non-ATA66 compliant cable'.
>> >
>> > Are you sure you have an 80 conductor cable and that it isn't too long?
>>
>> Yes. When I disconnect secondary (non ATA-66/100 compliant) drive from this
>> cable, FreeBSD use ATA-100 on primary.
>>
>
>FWIW, I'm seeing the exact same symptom.   I just added to 80gb Western
>Digital (IDE) drives to the system.   I used the 80-wire cables that came
>with the drives, and I see the following messages:
>
>atapci0: <VIA 82C686 ATA66 controller> port 0xd000-0xd00f at device 7.1 on
pci0
>ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
>ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
>. . .
>ad0: 19458MB <ST320420A> [39535/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66
>ad1: 76319MB <WDC WD800BB-40BSA0> [155061/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA66
>ata1-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 compliant cable
>ad2: 76319MB <WDC WD800BB-40BSA0> [155061/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33
>ad3: 2503MB <FUJITSU MPA3026ATU> [5086/16/63] at ata1-slave UDMA33
>
>They are the exact same drives using the exact same cable.  My controller
>only supports UDMA66, not 100...   but the reason that the 2nd controller
>seems to print out "non-ATA66 compiant cable" appears to simply be that
>ad3 is only ATA33 capable.
>
>Just thought I'd pipe up, since the subject came up :)
>
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Jack L. Stone,
Server Admin

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