[Soekris] Net5501 and SATA disk on FreeBSD

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20080430181832.7b9c91d3 at baby-jane-lamaiziere-net.local>, Patrick =?
ISO-8859-15?Q?Lamaizi=E8re?= writes:

>I would like to know if this is a bug on FreeBSD (so I will fill a PR)
>or a problem with the board. And if we can work-around this problem with
>a patch on the ata driver.

The UDMA33/UDMA66 cable recognition depends on one particular wire to
be not connected as far as I recall.  My guess is that soren connected
that.

Now, you could either find the offending wire on the pcb and cut it,
or you can hack the freebsd driver to ignore the test (I don't think
the chip checks autonomously) but that does not give you a guarantee
that UDMA66 will actually work.

I havn't tried it.

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