Re: [SLUG] 80GB IDE BIOS setup translation issue ?
Voytek Eymont wrote: Dion, brand new, but, according to the specs, the HD is UDMA 5, '100Mb/s' (must've picked up a cheap brand..) is there anything to be done to enable 'max transfer speed', apart from setting UDMA in BIOS ? and, use 80wire ribbon No it should be fine as long as its enabled as UDMA in the bios. Some bios' let you manually choose UDMA levels. I'd just leave it as UDMA enabled and as you say, use the 80 wire cable. Happy to help. Hope it all goes well. Cheers. D. -- "Never ascribe to malice that which may adequately be explained by incompetence." - Napoleon Bonaparte -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] 80GB IDE BIOS setup translation issue ?
On Mon, July 24, 2006 12:08 pm, Dion wrote: > UDMA66 is only good for 66 MB/s transfer rates. > If your hard disk is brand new, it most likely supports ATA133 (133MB/s) > so it's capable of higher transfer rates than your motherboard supports. Dion, brand new, but, according to the specs, the HD is UDMA 5, '100Mb/s' (must've picked up a cheap brand..) is there anything to be done to enable 'max transfer speed', apart from setting UDMA in BIOS ? and, use 80wire ribbon > If you only have this one drive then I doubt the ATA transfer rate is > likely to bite. If you were building some kind of raid array with a number > of drives then it might make a difference. > > Mostly if anything, I'm thinking only the size of your hard drive might > cause problems if your bios didn't support one that large. > > One option you may try, is to go into your bios on that machine and > making sure you select an ide device not currently in use, try choosing to > manually set the number of cylinders / heads and so forth as listed on I guess I'll go and test the HD on the system, before I go too far. anyhow, now I'm thinking perhaps I should get a spare system, rather than, spare HD. thanks for your help -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] 80GB IDE BIOS setup translation issue ?
Voytek Eymont wrote: Dion, as far as I recall, it's 'IDE : Two Ultra DMA66 ports' what limitations does that pose ? UDMA66 is only good for 66 MB/s transfer rates. If your hard disk is brand new, it most likely supports ATA133 (133MB/s) so it's capable of higher transfer rates than your motherboard supports. If you only have this one drive then I doubt the ATA transfer rate is likely to bite. If you were building some kind of raid array with a number of drives then it might make a difference. Mostly if anything, I'm thinking only the size of your hard drive might cause problems if your bios didn't support one that large. One option you may try, is to go into your bios on that machine and making sure you select an ide device not currently in use, try choosing to manually set the number of cylinders / heads and so forth as listed on your drive and see if the bios reports the correct size. On an award bios, the size is shown as you enter the values for the cylinders / heads etc. If you get the correct size then have a strong indication that its likely to work correctly. Cheers. D. -- "Never ascribe to malice that which may adequately be explained by incompetence." - Napoleon Bonaparte -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] 80GB IDE BIOS setup translation issue ?
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:01:23AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: > as far as I recall, it's 'IDE : Two Ultra DMA66 ports' > what limitations does that pose ? I think that it should be ok; there's some old kernels can't handle bigger than 33.something Gb. The next problem occurs at 137Gb for some controllers. Neither should concern you. One thing to ensure is that both machines use LBA addressing. More info at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] 80GB IDE BIOS setup translation issue ?
On Mon, July 24, 2006 9:45 am, Dion wrote: > I can't recall if there were problems with largish hard drives going > into P3 class machines. You might get some clues by going to the download > site for new bios' for your machines motherboard and look at the comments > changes made in recent bios revisions. > Do you know what sort of ATA controller / motherboard chipset you have? > You might find that the hard drive if it does work, will be limited to > ATA66 or ATA100. Dion, as far as I recall, it's 'IDE : Two Ultra DMA66 ports' what limitations does that pose ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] 80GB IDE BIOS setup translation issue ?
I can't recall if there were problems with largish hard drives going into P3 class machines. You might get some clues by going to the download site for new bios' for your machines motherboard and look at the comments / changes made in recent bios revisions. Do you know what sort of ATA controller / motherboard chipset you have? You might find that the hard drive if it does work, will be limited to ATA66 or ATA100. Sorry, not much help really. D. Voytek Eymont wrote: I'm in the process of setting up a new LAMP server with Centos; on a 80GB IDE (c1024, h256, s63) as I intened to install/set it up on 'some hardware', and, later on, replace the current hard drive with this 80GB hardrive on a remote to me server: am I likely to strike any issue in BIOS IDE translations between 'current hardware' and 'intended hardware' ?; is there any way to query the 'intended hardware' to confirm it will accept 80GB IDE hardrive (without physically plugging the HD in)? the intended hardware is P3-1GH (or P3-900Mhz) -- "Never ascribe to malice that which may adequately be explained by incompetence." - Napoleon Bonaparte -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
