Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 12:22:26 +0200 From: Munish Chopra <none@chopra--runbox.com.lh.bsd-dk.dk> To: bsd-dk@bsd-dk.dk Subject: Re: Post HW-upgrade: UDMA problemer
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 11:13:08AM +0200, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Jun 2001 00:44:05 +0200
> Munish Chopra <none@chopra--runbox.com.lh.bsd-dk.dk> wrote:
>
> > I'm assuming the old motherboard wasn't ATA100 capable, so if you took
> > out the old IDE cable and used that in the new one things have been
> > known to go haywire for pure hardware reasons (though nothing to worry
> > about). So ATA100 compliant IDE cable should leave things fine.
>
> That would explain it, yes. But I was under the impression that using an
> ordinary IDE-cable would just limit you to UDMA/33, which would be the
> solution when not running a ATA66/100 compliant OS?
Usually (and according to spec I believe), yes. But some hardware is too
dumb to figure things out (a search on google may retrieve some
pointers), and it's not always the cheap hardware that craps out.
Which poor OS can't run 66/100 yet?
-- -Munish
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