On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Abe wrote: UDMA 66 is a lot faster than a regular (E)IDE interface. It also helps if you have a harddrive that runs 7200 rpm instead of 5400 rpm. This should be mentioned on the drive itself. Paul >Hey, if you tell me how to do that I will gladly post my numbers. I've got a >UDMA 66 drive and the boot up claims it is using 33mhz system bus for it but I >don't know how to get solid numbers. This is neat. I'm really enjoying the >multitude of conversations going on in teh list these days. Learning as lot >too. Thanks everybody! -- In a world without walls and fences who needs windows or gates? http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-