On Wednesday 22 October 2003 01:14 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:55 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > I am trying to optimize my new drive, and I attempted to set its UDMA > > mode last night: > > > > UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 udma6 > > AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled > > Drive conforms to: (null): > > > > * signifies the current active mode > > Rob, the most significant thing I see is that it looks like the drive is > only capable of doing udma2. Since this is a new drive, I'm assuming it > should be able to do much more. > > First thing I'd check is to make sure that you don't have a 40 conductor > IDE cable on that drive instead of the 80 that you need. > > Got another cable you can switch out and try? > > HTHs! :-) > > PS BTW, why is that drive /dev/hdd and not /dev/hda? Is it an add on? That > looks like the slave position on the 2nd channel. Make sure your settings > are correct there...
Also, does your HD controller support higher than mode2? How old is your motherboard? -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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