On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 7:16 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Tuesday 21 October 2003 20:47, Vincent Chen wrote: > > Hi, all > > > > I got a new nforce2 mainboard recently and attached an > > old hard drive which BIOS identified as ATA66 drive. > > But according to dmesg output,it's ATA33. Using hdparm > > utility, it is a udma2 drive. Isn't ATA66 drive be > > identify as udma4? I am totally confused now, what > > speed my hard drive is running under mandrake linux? > > That's OK, My brand spanking new ATA 133 drive is said to be UDMA > 33 too. > > You need to set up hdparm to speed it up. The linux kernel is just > being careful not to overclock your drive. > > Rob
Isn't this because 66 and 133 are both 33 at base? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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