"ObeseWhale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > okay here goes... UDMA66 is simply a bandwidth limit on your HD. It allows > your hard drive to transfer at 66 megs per second instead of UDMA33, which > iss 33 megs per second. While Debian supports udma33 right out of the box > you have to compile udma66 support into the kernel. However, your hard > drive won't transfer faster than 33 megs per second very much, so the > performance gain from enabling isn't as big as you might expect... You'll > likely see something like a 15% gain in speed by enabling udma66. >
Hm, 15% gain is better than nothing.. I looked through the kernel config but found no mention of udma66, where is it? -chris
