Re: IDE UDMA/xx Hard drive and Debian
I have a P5A MB with a K6-2/400. I've had a few problems, but the
hard drive is nothing to worry about. Since the MB can only do
UDMA/33, that's all you'll get. AFAIK, the disk and MB hardware work
this out between them. UDMA is advertised to be backward compatible.
If you're really keen on getting higher througput, you can install a
card that can handle it. In that case you might want to disable the
drives in the BIOS (I'm not sure how that scenario works).
The two problems I've noticed are:
1) When I enable the L2 cache the machine reboots randomly under M$ W2K,
but is fine on debian. It's also fine under W2K with the cache off
(but slow). I figure this is just bad hardware--a disappointment,
since I picked ASUS for high quality.
2) I need to power the system down myself. This may also be
deteriorating hardware, since this used to work, at least under
Debian. But it may just be the way I've fiddled with my kernels and
modules.
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:31:02PM -0600, George M. Butler wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am assembling a new computer at home. It has an Asus P5A motherboard
> (super socket 7)
> and a AMD6- 2/500 Mh processor. I want to install the lastest Debian
> 2.2r2 from CDs.
> What would be a suitable EIDE hard drive to use? I am worried that the
> Linux kernel on this
> 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.
>
> George
>
>
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