Re: Inspiron 8000 IDE bus speed
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 10:42, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> On 15 Jan 2002, Simon Wong wrote:
> > I have noticed on booting that I have a message saying that an IDE bus
> > speed of 33MHz is being assumed.
>
> That's 33MHz *PCI* bus speed. Even if it says IDE everywhere near it.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
>
> > As far as I know the i8000 has a 66MHz bus speed.
>
> That's unlikely. It may support UDMA-66 mode for the drives.
Sorry, I seem to have that mixed up. It does support UDMA-66 for the
IDE drives.
I'll look at the doc on hdparm further to see if it's worth trying -X66
to get some more speed.
Thanks.
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