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authorDamien Miller <djm@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-04-19 01:18:40 +0000
committerDamien Miller <djm@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-04-19 01:18:40 +0000
commitfee43a053805f4933951b7d78241781f8ae7a500 (patch)
tree9c7e85cdf0c074faf367a778ccd6b99668b10d3f /share
parent6cb93110cadadebeb39944e273766149084876d8 (diff)
add a driver flag to force the negotiation of SATA 1 transfers
(1.5Gb/s). Useful where faster speeds are unstable; ok dlg@
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/ahci.49
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/ahci.4 b/share/man/man4/ahci.4
index 75c9e48a254..46813e30a52 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/ahci.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/ahci.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ahci.4,v 1.6 2007/07/02 03:37:40 dlg Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ahci.4,v 1.7 2008/04/19 01:18:39 djm Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2006 David Gwynne <dlg@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
.\" TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 2 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 19 2008 $
.Dt AHCI 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ Although
.Nm
controllers are actual ATA controllers, the driver emulates SCSI via a
translation layer.
+.Pp
+Setting the lowest bit (0x1) of the driver flags forces
+.Nm
+to negotiate SATA 1 (1.5 Gb/s) transfer speeds only.
+It may be useful where higher speeds are unstable.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr jmb 4 ,