On Wednesday 24 April 2002 08:34 am, Hoyt wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 April 2002 07:46 am, Jay wrote:
> > I am using a K7T Turbo Motherboard with a Maxtor 7200 RPM Harddrive
> > and am using the proper ide cable. Both support ATA100/UDMA5. When
> > I load Linux it ackowledges this, but sets the performance to
> > UDMA33. Playing around with hdparm does nothing, the harddrive
> > stays stuck at UDMA2. Does anyone know how to fix this???
> Add this to the LILO/GRUB command line:
> ide0=0x1f0 ide0=dma ide0=autotune ide1=dma ide1=autotune
> floppy=daring
> and undo all the hdparm settings.
> The best way is to duplicate the LILO stanza and add the above info
> in case it locks up your computer.
If Jay is usin 8.2, I've found that's all that need is to use a
newer kernel. Without changing anything else, my drives went from
udma2 to udma5. I believe 8.2's default kernel is designed to set
udma2 when it sees certain chipsets/controllers.
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