On 07/23/2011 01:02 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Thanks Felix, I'll check the setup utility. There are no jumpers at all on the drives. The jumper settings for the drive are here:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/search/1/a_id/5387#jumper
What I don't know is if I need to set the PHY jumper on pins 5-6 to get it recognized as a 3.0 Gbps drive. It seems that since it is a 6.0Gbps drive, it should fall back to 3.0, but conceivably, it could default from 6.0->1.5 unless pins 5-6 are set?? I'll give that a go.
It was the jumpers! With the new 6.0Gbps WDC drives, you have to limit the drives to 3.0Gbps in order for some sata controllers to recognize the drives as SATA-II drives instead of SATA-I drives. This is on a older Tyan Tomcat 8KE board (S2865) with the following nvidia SATA controllers: 13:23 nirvana:~> lspci <snip> 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2) 00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3) 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3) After setting pins 5-6 on each of the WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 drives, the drives came right up at 3.0Gbps: 13:23 nirvana:~> sudo dmesg | grep ata <snip> [ 1.363358] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 1.370543] ata1.00: ATA-8: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0, 05.01D05, max UDMA/133 [ 1.372815] ata1.00: 1953525168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) [ 1.380018] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 1.386960] ata3.00: ATA-8: ST3750528AS, CC35, max UDMA/133 [ 1.389290] ata3.00: 1465149168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) [ 1.389303] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 1.406937] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 1.853354] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 1.860937] ata2.00: ATA-8: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0, 05.01D05, max UDMA/133 [ 1.863299] ata2.00: 1953525168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) [ 1.877002] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 2.350019] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 2.356766] ata4.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorp DVD+/-RW TS-H653A, D400, max UDMA/33 [ 2.359131] ata4.00: applying bridge limits [ 2.373431] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33 Thanks Istvan, Felix for your thoughts! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org