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Re: Can not get UDMA-100 working...




On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, mess-mate wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 26 Jan 2003 21:21:04 +0100
> Dominique Deleris <dominique.deleris@bluewin.ch> wrote:
> 
> | Hello,
> | 
> | The background: I have recently bought a new Seagate Barracuda V
> | disk (60 Gb), which is UDMA-100 capable. Since my motherboard
> | (Asus CUV4X) is only UDMA-66 ready, I have also bought a Promise IDE
> | controller (Ultra 133TX2).
> | 
> | Now the problem: 8 times out of 10, when booting the system, my
> | drive is recognized as only UDMA-33! The behaviour is weird: if I
> | open the box and slightly move the cable, 

it doesnt matter if it boots slowly in udma-33 mode or not..

what is importnat is that after its booted, that you're in udma-100 mode
	hdparm -iv /dev/hda | grep dma

	you should have a star next to udma5
	and it should show using_dma mode is enabled

c ya
alvin



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