At 11:04 AM 11/2/2005, Vivek Khera wrote:
interesting... i'm looking at the kernel boot messages from a PE
SC430 box (purchased last week) running FreeBSD 5.4 and it is showing
the SATA controller as "generic ATA" and running it at UDMA33 speed.
that doesn't seem 100% right to run at that slow DMA speed, but it
does seem to function.
All-
While I haven't used the Dell's in question, I have used Supermicro and
ASUS-based hosts with onboard SATA.
On the Supermicro, you must choose between multiple modes for SATA,
basically "Enhanced Mode" or "Compatible Mode" or "Legacy Mode". Each
vendor has a slightly different combination, especially if the motherboard
supports ATA and SATA on the same chipset.
When reporting issues, it might help to let us know what mode the SATA is
set up in, assuming the Dell has multiple modes.
I bet that if one person is having problems and another, with the same
model, is not, that this "mode" is the cause.
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