It is nice having a fast drive but if you stick it with something slow say ata66. This drive will now only work at ata66. I had these problems with older stuff. Depending on your MB bus speed ata 100 / 133 or whatever. I would seriously suggest getting a ultra dma ata ??? IDE card - IF there is room on MB so that you may enjoy the speed of the drive. The cards are not that expensive. I did this and it is alone on a cable and I am able to enjoy the higher speeds. You may find that the HD is now hde in linux.. Johan. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Dekkers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:12 AM Subject: Re: which IDE controller I have
> > > Bill Tangren wrote: > > > Would someone tell me where to look (possibly in /proc) to see which IDE > > controller I have? I would like to purchase a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9, > > 80GB Hard Drive but it requires an EIDE Ultra ATA/133 controller. I > > noticed this in file /proc/ide/piix > > > > > > Controller: 0 > > > > Intel PIIX4 Ultra 33 Chipset. > > --------------- Primary Channel ---------------- Secondary Channel > > ------------- > > enabled enabled > > --------------- drive0 --------- drive1 -------- drive0 ---------- > > drive1 ------ > > DMA enabled: yes no yes no > > UDMA enabled: yes no yes no > > UDMA enabled: 2 X 2 X > > UDMA > > DMA > > PIO > > > > > > Does this mean that I have an Ultra/33 controller, and cannot use this > > particular Maxtor hard disk? > > Most hard disks (in fact all I've used), will happilly work on UDMA mode 2. > > This should not be a problem. > > Regards, > Ed. > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
