>> > Hi all,
>> > I hope this doesn't cover too well trod ground but I couldn't find any
>> > good answer to it in the archives. I recently decided to switch to Mandrake
>> > from Red hat when 7.1 came out. One of the statements I saw sent around about it
>> > was that it natively supported the HPT366 UDMA66 interface that is part of the
>> > BP6 motherboard. Mandrake does successfully work and install on a drive that
>> > is on that bus but the performance I'm getting is horrible, worse than the
>> > drives I have on the BX chip set's native IDE interface.
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If you were to put this to Abit, they would first ask you whether you
are using the special UDMA66 drive cables. It can make a big
difference.
Steve
Stephen B. Browne
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