Re: optimizing the hard drive? (fwd)

[Krzys Majewski <majewski@cs.ubc.ca>]

"ObeseWhale" <obesewhale@3dactionplanet.com> writes:
> okay here goes...  UDMA66 is simply a bandwidth limit on your HD. It allows
> your hard drive to transfer at 66 megs per second instead of UDMA33, which
> iss 33 megs per second.  While Debian supports udma33 right out of the box
> you have to compile udma66 support into the kernel.  However, your hard
> drive won't transfer faster than 33 megs per second very much, so the
> performance gain from enabling isn't as big as you might expect...  You'll
> likely see something like a 15% gain in speed by enabling udma66.
> 

Hm,  15% gain is  better than  nothing.. I  looked through  the kernel
config but found no mention of udma66, where is it? -chris