Darren King wrote:

>I have the same problem.  I have a drive capable of ATA-100 and a board
>capable of ATA-66 but I get udma 2.  I should get udma 3 (66).
>
>I have those lines in my dmesg file.  Now what do I do?  Do I have to
>play with the idebus= parameteR?
>
>dARREN
>
>On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 04:38, Larry Sword wrote:
>
>>Check your /var/log/dmesg for a line (something like):
>>
>>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
>>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
>>
>>Larry
>>
>>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???
>>>
>>>-Jay 
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No, 33 is the max for PIO transfers.  You could override with something 
like idebus=16 if you have a device that doesn't seem to work  (a really 
old CD drive for example).

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