hard disk problem

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Sep 13 13:24:58 UTC 2007


Rohan Kulkarni wrote:
> In my BIOS,I have only 2 options for hard disks..enable SATA as RAID or
> enable SATA as IDE.By default it has selected "enable SATA as IDE".But
> UDMA is set to UDMA5 by default and not UDMA6.I have to manually set it
> to UDMA6 but still hdparm shows it as UDMA5.Do I need a reinstall of F7
> with UDMA6 set????
> 
A re-install is not going to make a difference. The first thing I
would do is look at the specifications of your drive to make sure it
supports UDMA6. Just because the controller supports it, does not
mean the drive supports it. The output of hdparm suggests that it
doesn't.

Mikkel
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