Need some insight on error messages that I am getting.

Marshall Heartley heartley at earthlink.net
Thu Oct 23 12:20:45 PDT 2003


<snip>
> \From ata(4) manpage:
> 
> man> The use of UDMA4(66MHz) and higher together with non-UDMA4 devices on the
> man> same ATA channel is not recommended, unless they are run at the non-UDMA4
> man> device's lower speed.  The driver has been designed to handle that kind
> man> of setup but lots of older devices do not like this.

This definitely would explain it.  Shows how new I am to FreeBSD. 
Thanks!

Is there a way to put the proper atacontrol command in somewhere so that
it will slow the first hdd (ad0) down to UDMA33?  

Thank you!

Marshall



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