Re: IDE UDMA/xx Hard drive and Debian

2001-03-16 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a P5A MB with a K6-2/400. I've had a few problems, but the hard drive is nothing to worry about. Since the MB can only do UDMA/33, that's all you'll get. AFAIK, the disk and MB hardware work this out between them. UDMA is advertised to be backward compatible. If you're really keen on ge

Re: IDE UDMA/xx Hard drive and Debian

2001-03-15 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, George M. Butler wrote: > Hi all, > > release does not support the IDE UDMA/100 mode. I have read the Howto > Doc on UDMA > but I am afraid that it did not seem clear to me. Does it even matter > if the kernel supports the > UDMA/100? The ASUS manual says that the board s

IDE UDMA/xx Hard drive and Debian

2001-03-15 Thread George M. Butler
Hi all, I am assembling a new computer at home. It has an Asus P5A motherboard (super socket 7) and a AMD6- 2/500 Mh processor. I want to install the lastest Debian 2.2r2 from CDs. What would be a suitable EIDE hard drive to use? I am worried that the Linux kernel on this release does not supp