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RE: Assuming 33MHz



Hello,
33MHz is fixed IDE clock rate, but more the one byte can be
transffered due one CLOCK cycle (by halving the DATA cycle eg.
like FSB with CPU)...

Martin

>-----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Jacobson [mailto:jidanni@jidanni.org]
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 11:45 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: ide: Assuming 33MHz
>
>
> Upon boot, one sees
> "ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override
> with idebus=xx".
> But upon reading e.g.,
>
http://storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/if/ide/modesUDMA.html
> one feels their computer sounds more like the 100Mhz kind.
> How can one tell if one is taking full advantage of the
hardware?
>
> Maybe I am, as I see "IDE UDMA100 controller" in dmesg etc.
output
> (that I put in http://jidanni.org/comp/system.zip)
>



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