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Re: ide bus speed



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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicos Gollan" <gtdev@spearhead.de>
To: "arthur_dent" <arthur_dent@xtra.co.nz>; <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: ide bus speed


> On Tuesday 04 June 2002 13:44, arthur_dent wrote:
> > When booting both mylaptop and a desktop I notice that during the
> > boot sequence it says:
> >
> > "assuming 33MHz system bus speed.......
> >
> > Does this mean it's assuming a PCI bus speed of 33MHz?
> > Does that mean the system motherboard speed. i.e. some p.c's may
> > advertise a bus speed of 100MHz or more these days, I think.?
>
> IIRC, the PCI bus is supposed to run at 33MHz. You'll have to make a
> difference between
>  * Front side bus (CPU, Northbridge, RAM), that's what marketing says
>  * PCI bus, runs mostly at 33MHz, can be pushed to 66MHz if _all_ cards
> support it. Not recommended.
>  * IDE bus. There you have DMA33, UDMA66/100/133
>
>
>
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