Re: [SLUG] HDD transfer rate

From: Levi Bard (levi@bard.sytes.net)
Date: Mon May 24 2004 - 14:53:34 EDT


Scott Piper wrote:

> I just did a very quick check on udma6 in google and found this page
> by Samsung
>
> http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/support/faqs/faqs_20030723_0000007938.htm
>
>
> It appears that udma5 is 100MB/sec, but your drive does support the
> faster speed. I wonder if you need a motherboard bios upgrade (if
> your mb supports 133MB /sec)

Hmm, I'll check the bios. The motherboard does claim to support 133
(tyan k8w 2875 ftp://ftp.tyan.com/datasheets/d_s2875_120.pdf ). Do you
know of anything specific I need to enable in the kernel to get udma6?
I thought I hit all the relevant IDE stuff, but I will recheck.
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