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

[Garrett Cooper]

Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
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>> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 03:31:35AM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
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>>> Xin LI wrote:
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>>>> Yes (so that you get the correct speed of ICH9, ironically I have
>>>> misunderstood the spec).  I am working on a new patch.
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>>> The speeds are still incorrect (150 instead of 300)
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>> 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
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>>     
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> 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.
>>   
>>     
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> I will check but:
>
> 1. I was unaware of this "feature"
> 2. I didn't see any jumpers when I installed it
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>> 2) Do you happen to be using a PATA-to-SATA adapter on the DVD drive?
>>   
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> It is native SATA (300)
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>> 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?
>>   
>>     
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> Mobo has ATAPI I am not sure about the IHC issue though... will look it
>
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> 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