Re: idebus=xx and lilo
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On Thursday 12 September 2002 09:25, Robert Ian Smit wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:09:39AM -0400, Bob Underwood wrote:
> > i have a new mainboard running woody with kernel 2.4.19-k7.
> > during bootup, i get the following message:
> >
> > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override
> > with idebus=xx.
> >
> > lspci -v shows (in part) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium
> > devsel, latency, which appears to indicate that i can safely pass
> > idebus=66 to the kernel. is there a way to do so with lilo?
> > i've added append="idebus=66" to the append statement in the
> > default configuration and to the kernel section. neither appears
> > to pass the information to the kernel.
>
> I noticed that to on my system. After some investigation I didn't
> bother changing things. I can't quite remember, but isn't the
> message an indication of the speed between the pci-controller and
> the ide-controller? As far as I know this doesn't involve the speed
> between ide-controller and your disk.
>
> If other people suggest changing idebus, I will look in to it
> again, but currently my disks use UDMA 100 (from the top of my
> head). Which was all I wanted really.
>
> Bob
thanks, i'll leave it alone for now.
bob
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