Re: ATA-3 drives
As it says on my HD box:
Buffer Size:
256KB
Average Seek time:
<10MS
Data Transfer Rate:
33.0 MB/Sec
(Ultra DMA-Mode 2)
Ultra DMA is also known as Ultra ATA. It has twice the speed of IDE drives.
George Bonser wrote:
> ATA is, I do not think the problem .... I think ATA is short for ATAPI.
> What is the problem, I think, is the DMA33 whatever that is.
>
> On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Britton wrote:
>
> >
> > I am looking at buying another system myself. I have never heard of ATA
> > though. Is it something I should want, or just more hype? Is it likely
> > to be supported under Linux 2.2?
> >
> > On Tue, 30 Dec 1997 hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu wrote:
> >
> > > george bonser wrote,
> > >
> > >
> > > > > 1) Ultra ATA 33 (UATA) hard drives
> > >
> > > > No linux supports ATA33 as far as I know. If you can put the drives in
> > > > EIDE mode (as most will), Linux will work fine.
> > >
> > > There is a patch (I forget where, but it's out there) for the kernel to
> > > support them. I tried it, but my maxtor8.4 won't handle this mode at 83mhz,
> > > only 66. So I set the mode back down, and went back to my old kernel.
> > >
> > > rick
> > >
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