Thank you so much John. I will follow your advice when buying the new drive.
Hopefully Mandrake will have the ATA 100 issue resolved with ver. 8.3. Maury
On Thursday 20 June 2002 09:39 pm, you wrote:
> M E Wilson wrote:
> > Hi Everyone
> > I am running a Gigabyte GA-60xM7E MB withh an Intel 815e chipset, with
> > Mandrake 8.2. Everything is working good and Mandrake picked up
> > everything except the 815e stuff. I am not using the on board sound or
> > video so no problem there however would like to get drivers for the ATA
> > 100 features. I have the machine set up with removable drive bays and am
> > using an older 5gb hdd, but want to get a larger new drive for my final
> > setup. The 5gb drive was just a play thing to test different systems but
> > I've seen the light and my win 98se driive is sitting on the shelf
> > collecting dust. Thanks in advance for any ideas. I am a new Slug member
> > and also a Linux newbee but my computering goes back to the XT and DOS.
> > Maury
>
> Well, you can get to a forced ATA\66 mode, but actually I think your drive
> might be internally running at ATA\100. Unfortunately, true ATA\100 support
> is still in the works for stock Mandrake. I have a WD 400BB series, and it
> will run any speed asked of it--but the data flow rates for things like iso
> burns tell me it is really going at ATA\100 rates-- and it did so in both
> Mandrake and RedHat (I am now running RedHat 7.3, switch back and forth,
> and both run fine-- except for sane\xsane set, which works only in
> Mandrake.) .
>
> I recommend WD BB or AB series, both are good, the BB series is a 7200 RPM
> and the AB is a 5400 RPM. Avoid EB like heck, it is a one-year economy
> line. JB is probably overkill as it is an 8 MB buffer HD, at 7200 RPM-- so
> unless you NEED screaming data flow for motion video multimedia stream
> editing, a WD400BB or WD600BB are good choices.
>
> John.
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