disk problems or false alarm??

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 01.05.2004 schrieb jludwig um 00:32:

> > > I might add that I see nothing about bus speed. The default for linux
> > > has been 33Mhz for IDE systems (adding idebus=133 quadruples drive
> > > speed).
> > 
> > I highly doubt you have a 133MHz PCI bus.  I also doubt you have tested to
> > verify this "quadrupule" drive speed.
> > 
> > William Hooper
> Correct, newer systems do support this speed. Also the hard drive(s)
> must be considered in this issue.

> jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>

Be aware, that idebus does not mean UDMA speed (like UDMA33 or UDMA100)
or the speed in MB/sec. On actual PC architecture the 32bit PCI bus is
rated at 33 MHz as well the IDE bus. So setting idebus to anything other
than the default of 33 is nonsense.

Alexander


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