Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Wiki for discussing P35/IHC9(R)/SATA issues set up

From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:57:47 -0800
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 03:31:35AM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Xin LI wrote:
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Yes (so that you get the correct speed of ICH9, ironically I have
>>>> misunderstood the spec).  I am working on a new patch.
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> The speeds are still incorrect (150 instead of 300)
>>>     
>>>       
>> According to the thread and Wiki data I see, you're complaining that the
>> following two devices on your SATA bus are SATA150 when they should be
>> SATA300, correct?
>>
>>     Master:  ad8 <ST3500630AS/3.AAE> Serial ATA v1.0
>>     Master: acd0 <TSSTcorpCD/DVDW SH-S183L/SB01> Serial ATA v1.0
>>   
>>     
>
> yes btw due to god knows what reason the patch renumbered ad8 to ad6
>   
    Depends on whether or not AHCI vs IDE (aka 'compatibility-mode') is 
involved, and whether or not you have multiple SATA controllers in the 
mix (for instance ASUS MBs have one ICHx +    JBMicron controller, each).
>> 1) Have you verified that the SATA150-limiting jumper on your Seagate
>>    drive has been removed?  SATA300 drives from Seagate come from the
>>    factory with that jumper connected, limiting the drive to SATA150.
>>   
>>     
>
> I will check but:
>
> 1. I was unaware of this "feature"
> 2. I didn't see any jumpers when I installed it
>   
>> 2) Do you happen to be using a PATA-to-SATA adapter on the DVD drive?
>>   
>>     
>
> It is native SATA (300)
>   
>> 3) If No to #2, are you sure that the ICH9 does SATA300 with ATAPI
>>    devices?  Does the mainboard BIOS even support it for ATAPI?
>>   
>>     
>
> Mobo has ATAPI I am not sure about the IHC issue though... will look it
>
>
>
> up and get back to you.

    Make sure you don't have cheap / SATA300 incompatible cables :).

    FWIW, my ICH9 enabled P5K-E Wifi MB has zero problems with FreeBSD 
7-CURRENT/8-CURRENT. What flavor of MB do you have?

-Garrett
Received on Tue Nov 06 2007 - 08:58:08 UTC

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