It is indeed DMA/66. I would rather not patch the kernel. DMA/33 wouldn't require a patch? I don't know where the DMA rate comes into play, but would a scsi drive address this issue? I read that scsi drives take better advantage of SMP architecture, so I've been thinking I should go that route. As far as distribution, it looks like most of the smp crowd at http://www.nlug.org/smp/ have used Red Hat. Christopher Thompson wrote: > > On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > hd 13.2GB_7200_HD > > If you are expecting UDMA/66 (?) to work happily with Linux, you should be > careful... you need to patch your kernel and even then, it may not work. > However, everything is backwards compatible so it should be okay. - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dmentre/smp-howto/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
