Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > What this means is, how you have things presently proves that the > device has SATA300 capability. "Serial ATA II" == SATA300. > > If dmesg on the machine shows "SATA150" for the device still, despite > what atacontrol shows, then there may be a driver bug. > from dmesg: ad6: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500630AS 3.AAE> at ata3-master SATA150 > Either way, this is a good improvement. > > snip > > These two things are somewhat conflicting. > > 1) If the problem is fixed by Xi Lin's patch, then that seems to > indicate it should be affecting everyone using the ICH9 controller, > including those who use Asus, Abit, or MSI boards. > It is only partially fixed. > 2) Boot manager as in the BIOS boot device menu, or as in FreeBSD BTX? > If BIOS boot device menu, then that doesn't mean anything. The > BIOS could indeed be doing something wrong which FreeBSD expects > to be right. Problems like this should ideally be brought to the > attention of the mainboard manufacturer. > BTX -- Aryeh M. Friedman Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.comReceived on Tue Nov 06 2007 - 09:41:09 UTC
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