When is sataIII actually sataIII?

[Josh Paetzel]

On Thu, Nov 1, 2018, at 8:45 AM, spamless at mail-on.us wrote:

> I have another Sata 3 drive on the second Sata 3 port, that FreeBSD
> actually treats as what it is:
> ada1 at ahcich1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0
> ada1: <ST3000DM001-1CH166 CC47> ACS-2 ATA SATA 3.x device
> ada1: Serial Number W1F55VT9
> ada1: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
> ada1: Command Queueing enabled
> ada1: 2861588MB (5860533168 512 byte sectors)
> ada1: quirks=0x1<4K>
> 
> note the "quirks" - is that good, or bad?
> 
> In the end, it appears that I have to purchase a slower rated (Sata 3) 
> drive
> to get FreeBSD to treat it as a Sata 3 drive? It makes no sense to me. 
> Which
> is why I came here; in hopes of finding out *why* it appears as it does. 
> :)
> 
> Thanks again, Frank!
> 
> Oh! In case it matters; this is on 12 (CURRENT)
> 
> -- 
> Chris out...
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A full dmesg would be useful.  A dmesg from a verbose boot even more useful.
As well as the make and model of the motherboard.

The most common problem is the controller the drive is plugged into isn't actually capable of SATA 3.

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Thanks,

Josh Paetzel