Re: IDE UDMA/xx Hard drive and Debian
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, George M. Butler wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> release does not support the IDE UDMA/100 mode. I have read the Howto
> Doc on UDMA
> but I am afraid that it did not seem clear to me. Does it even matter
> if the kernel supports the
> UDMA/100? The ASUS manual says that the board supports IDE UDMA/33
> standard. What are the issues here? Thanks for any help you can give
> me.
In your case, it won't matter. Hard drives are forward and backwards
compatible, up to a point(had some problems with an old 340 megger on an
HPT366, but the hpt366 has its own problems as it is <grin>)
Your drive will quite happily clock down to the ultra/33 that your
motherboard supports. _Worst_ case, is you'll need to download the
hd manufacturer's utility to set ultra/33 if the onboard controller can't
talk to the drive properly.
mike
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