Does this mean that you need to have done hdparm -d 1 /dev/whatever a la
http://www.frankenlinux.com/guides/tweaks.html?
- Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wandered Inn [mailto:">esoteric@denali.atlnet.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 9:27 AM
> Cc: ">ale@ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] ata66 card
>
>
> "Glenn C. Lasher, Jr." wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Wandered Inn wrote:
> >
> > > Oh, another thing. The Maxtor tech told me Linux does
> not support ata66
> > > technology. He said there were three thing you needed
> for it to work:
> > >
> > > 1. a drive that supports it,
> > > 2. a mb or controller card that supports it,
> > > 3. and an OS that supports it.
> >
> > Why does the OS need anything special to support it?
> That's the question
> > that immediately comes to my mind. I haven't seen any
> special drivers
> > installed on NT/95/98/2K machines using these drives!
>
> I have no idea. Here are the 'system requirements' for ata66 from the
> Western Digital web site:
>
> System Requirements for Ultra ATA/66
>
> 1. The host system must support Ultra ATA/66 (system
> motherboard, BIOS,
> chipset, or controller card). Ultra ATA/66 controller cards may be
> obtained from Promise Technologies.
>
> 2. The hard drive must support Ultra ATA/66.
>
> 3. A 40-pin, 80-conductor IDE cable must be attached to the
> host system
> and the hard drive. 80-conductor cables may be obtained from
> www.ultracable.com.
>
> 4. The operating system must be enabled for DMA transfers.
>
> The only OS issue I see is the DMA transfers issue.
>
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> Until later: Geoffrey                ">esoteric@denali.atlnet.com
>
> I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
> Y2K...
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