On Wednesday 22 October 2003 19:02, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
> I know the feeling.
:-)
> The way to check (and set) IDE parameters is with hdparm:
>
> 18:58:09:~# hdparm -v /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
> multcount= 16 (on)
> IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
> unmaskirq= 1 (on)
> using_dma= 1 (on
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't doubt your explenation but:
>
> 1. I *think* that I feel things move faster after I added this parameter
> (with value of 66).
I know the feeling.
> 2. More important - how can I know if my IDE bus and device (Maxtor
> 6Y080P0, 80Gb+8Mb ca
Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
This is wrong. The reason it appears to work is either:
1. The driver ignores this option.
1. It only affects PIO modes, and you probably use UDMA mode.
2. The driver only accepts reasonable values.
The actual meaning of this paramater is the clock of the bus the IDE
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On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> > 2.
> > On boot, I get the following message:
> > "Assuming 33MHz bus. Use idebus=xx to override". I traced it to the
> > ide-core module. As my new disk is ATA133 (my IDE is only 100, but let's
> > not be
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Hi all,
Hi,
> I have recently bought a new hardisk. aside from the vast new spaces now
> available to me, I have a couple of questions.
> 1.
> I partitioned the disk to segments (copied my old system over instead of
> reinstalling - worked great). /u
