On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:14 pm, Andreas Janssen wrote: > My guess: wrong type of cable. Make sure it can do more that udma2. > It's my fault, naturally...
Since the cable worked (albeit slowly) and since I'm new to fast IDE drives, I never thought to blame the cable. My last desktop machine was a P/166. After actually reading some documentation on cabling, I realized that I had installed my cable *backwards*. When I reinstalled the cable so the blue connector was plugged into the motherboard instead of plugged into the drive, my hdparm number immediately lept from 19 MB/s to 27 MB/s, for a 50% improvement. hdparm also says that the drive is running as udma4. That seems much more reasonable, given my P3/866 and a UDMA4 drive. Thanks, -darin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
