[Soekris] Net5501 and SATA disk on FreeBSD

[Karl O. Pinc]

On 05/01/2008 04:42:56 AM, Patrick Lamaizière wrote:
> The wiring on the board seems ok. I removed the check of the cable in
> the FreeBSD ata driver and i'm able to use UDMA100 without any problem
> (the box survived to a 'make buildworld' and some copies of large
> files).
> 
> A quick test with dd shows me some improvements, around 26 MB/s in
> UDMA33, 33 MB/s in UDMA66/UDMA100.

This debian bug may or may not be relevant.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479217

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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