non-ATA66 cable?

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 9:15 PM -0500 10/21/06, David Kelly wrote:
>Dell PowerEdge 400SC, 6.2-PRERELEASE (altho this is an old issue)
>
>dmesg says:
>
>acd0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable
>acd0: DVDR <LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S/BS0K> at ata1-master UDMA33
>cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers
>
>The controller is properly probed as,
>                "atapci0: <Intel ICH5 UDMA100 controller>"
>
>This DVD isn't writing discs as fast as other brands on other machines
>and OS's (such as MacOS X). Lite-On has a newer firmware that I have
>not tried.

Well, first the obvious question:  What kind of cable do you have it
hooked up with?

Assuming you have the right cable, make sure you have it connected
correctly.  I had a problem like this once, and it turned out that I
had put the cable on backwards.  I had connected the end of the cable
meant for the motherboard to the device (a disk, iirc), and visa-versa.

I switched the cable around, and then it worked fine.  Of course, I
didn't discover this until after a few years, while I was in the
process of replacing that PC!

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