How to Force UDMA100 Mode on Boot?
Mark Kane
mark at mkproductions.org
Tue Aug 16 08:35:38 GMT 2005
Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Your BIOS ought to have a setting which throttles this down.
From what I see in the BIOS it just says "DMA Mode" and then Enabled or
Disabled. Unfortunately it doesnt look like any drive-specific options
to choose which speed.
> Simply changing in within FreeBSD might be a little late, since the
> system has to boot far enough to get to that, or you might run some
> other OS on the machine one fine day. Anyway, consider:
>
> touch /etc/rc.local
> echo "/sbin/atacontrol mode ..." >> /etc/rc.local
Everything seems fine with all the drives until I try to start to
transfer data between them at 133 mode. So I think that rc entry you
suggested would be perfect, since that would execute before I would
start transferring any files.
Thanks :)
-Mark
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