[Soekris] SATA failures on 2 x net5501-70 units

[Patrick Lamaizière]

Le Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:09:54 +0100,
Martin Johnson <martin.johnson.uk.lists at googlemail.com> a écrit :

 
> I am puzzled about this message though: "ad1: DMA limited to UDMA33,  
> device found non-ATA66 cable".  My PATA drives manage ATA66 mode on  
> the net5501-70, so it seems a bit of a shame if the SATA drives only  
> manage ATA33.  What DMA speeds are other people seeing on SATA
> drives on the net5501-70?   Perhaps a default conservative setting on
> FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE.

I asked for this some time ago, see.
http://www.nabble.com/Net5501-and-SATA-disk-on-FreeBSD-td16986487.html

I patched the ata driver to not check the cable.