ide bus settings

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Fri Oct 7 15:20:55 UTC 2005


David Niemi wrote:
> Looking through the messages log I came across the following:
> 
>         ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override
>         with idebus=xx
> 
> Don't most new PCs with SATA have a 66Mhz or faster bus?
> 
> What is the command / program for setting the IDE / SATA Settings?
> 
> Thanks
> 

As I have come across this exact problem, I found on a WWW sites that 
sometimes the BIOS is written to recognize the SATA drive as IDE and 
it can be changed there on some computers.
-- 
Robin Laing




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