KT7-Raid ...
The board supports DMA/33 and Ultra DMA/66 on IDE1/2 and ata-100(or
UDMA100 if you like) on IDE3/4 using a HPT370 controller. The IBM
Deskstar Ultra ATA100 7200rpm drive is on ide3.
I haven't had time to play around hdparm yet so this is what the default
settings are reporting.
Timing buffer-cache 128 MB in .74 seconds = 172.97 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.8 seconds = 35.56 MB/sec
I've got a regular cdrom and a 8x4x32x (Panasonic OEM 2Meg buffer el
cheapo burner) on ide1 and can tell you that to burn the first Mandrake
7.2 cd took between 6 and 8 minutes which is pretty good.
The only other thing I did to get this working was to install the latest
BIOS from Abit.
Greg
Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> Greg Sarsons wrote:
> >
> > time for my 2 cents ...... I'm using 7.2 out of the box with an Abit
> > KT7-Raid (UDMA 100 or ATA100 if you like) and an IBM Deskstar 30Gig HD.
> > The chipset for the mother board is via and I haven't had any problems
>
> Thanks. How many IDE channels (40 pin male plugs) are provided by
> this motherboard? Which IDE channel is your 30G HD on? Is there a
> chip by Promise on your mb?
>
> What does hdparm -Tt /dev/hd? say?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ron. [au]
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It said use Windows 98 or better so I installed Linux.
