Only WDMA2?

Mark admin at asarian-host.net
Mon Aug 9 17:23:57 PDT 2004


Mark wrote:

>>> In my FreeBSD 4.9R server, I use an ARAID99 1000L RAID system.
>>> However, it only runs at "WDMA2":
>>>
>>> Aug  9 21:08:36 asarian-host /kernel: ad0: 39205MB <ASI ARAID99
>>> 1000 Rev 2.5> [79656/16/63] at ata0-master WDMA2
>>
>>> WDMA2 only offers 16 MB/s, whereas ATA133 of course, offers 133
>>> MB/s. The question is, is there a reason FreeBSD only uses WDMA2
>>> for this device? (it contains two MAXTOR 40G ATA133 disks,
>>> connected to an ATA133 IDE port as single master).
>>>
>>> Second question, subsidiary, can I force a higher mode than WDMA2?
>>> (like UDMA 133).


Allow me to give some additional info:

/var/log/dmesg.today:ad0: 39205MB <ASI ARAID99 1000 Rev 2.5> [79656/16/63]
at ata0-master WDMA2
/var/log/dmesg.today:ad4: 78167MB <Maxtor 6Y080L0> [158816/16/63] at
ata2-master UDMA133
/var/log/dmesg.today:acd0: CDROM <ASUS CD-S500/A> at ata1-master PIO4
/var/log/dmesg.today:atapci0: <Promise TX2 ATA133 controller> port
0xa000-0xa00f,0xa400-0xa403,0xa800-0xa807,0xb000-0xb003,0xb400-0xb407 mem
0xfde00000-0xfde03fff irq 10 at device 12.0 on pci0
/var/log/dmesg.today:ata2: at 0xb400 on atapci0
/var/log/dmesg.today:ata3: at 0xa800 on atapci0
/var/log/dmesg.today:atapci1: <VIA Apollo ATA controller> port 0xfc00-0xfc0f
at device 15.1 on pci0
/var/log/dmesg.today:ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci1
/var/log/dmesg.today:ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci1

This is on a ASUS K8V Deluxe board.

Thanks,

- Mark



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