ATA troubles

[Andrea Venturoli]

On 07/25/11 16:03, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:

> I fixed a similar problem -- involving a VIA 6421 controller --
> a while back, by using atacontrol(8) to reduce the DMA speed
> from UDMA133 to UDMA100.  Evidently it is possible, under some
> circumstances, for a device and controller to negotiate a speed
> that's too high to actually work :(

I checked and it was already set at UDMA100; I tried UDMA66, but nothing 
changed.
I don't know if this is really effective with SATA...

  bye & Thanks
	av.