On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>
> Intel Patsburg is otherwise known as Intel X79. The X79
> chipset/southbridge offers 6 SATA ports, 2 of which are SATA600, and the
> remaining 4 are SATA300:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_X79
>
>
While Wikipedia correctly says
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 02:21:57PM -0700, Dave Hayes wrote:
>> Greetings all. I'm on FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #0 r251391M. I'm noticing
>> two of my SATA disks are at half speed. Is this normal or is there
>> some configuration I'm forgetting?
>>
On 06/27/13 18:38, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
Next, this statement by ahci(4) then confuses the user:
ahci0: AHCI v1.30 with 6 6Gbps ports, Port Multiplier not supported
Yes, this confuses even a seasoned user. ;)
TL;DR -- Your motherboard offers 6 ports, 2 of which are SATA600, 4 of
which are
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 06:38:27PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> Next, this statement by ahci(4) then confuses the user:
>
> > ahci0: AHCI v1.30 with 6 6Gbps ports, Port Multiplier not supported
>
> You see, when AHCI was invented, the existing idea was that all ports
> would have the same spee
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 02:21:57PM -0700, Dave Hayes wrote:
> Greetings all. I'm on FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #0 r251391M. I'm noticing
> two of my SATA disks are at half speed. Is this normal or is there
> some configuration I'm forgetting?
>
> # dmesg | grep -C 4 ahc
> ...
> ahci0: port
> 0x2070-0x207
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Dave Hayes wrote:
> Greetings all. I'm on FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #0 r251391M. I'm noticing two of my
> SATA disks are at half speed. Is this normal or is there some configuration
> I'm forgetting?
In my experience it's fairly common to have a mix of 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s po
Greetings all. I'm on FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #0 r251391M. I'm noticing two
of my SATA disks are at half speed. Is this normal or is there some
configuration I'm forgetting?
# dmesg | grep -C 4 ahc
...
ahci0: port
0x2070-0x2077,0x2060-0x2063,0x2050-0x2057,0x2040-0x2043,0x2020-0x203f
mem 0xd0b