Wednesday, October 20, 1999

Hello sylvain,

Wednesday, Wednesday, October 20, 1999, you wrote:

sylvain> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Kit Ngan wrote:
>> > Edmond & Elza Cheng wrote:
>> > > Does the latest kernel 2.2.13-17 support the IDE ATA 66?
>> 
>> You won't get the full benefit of the controllers in compatibility
>> mode, generally.
>> 

sylvain> Only a few hard disk controller drivers support ATA66. For example
sylvain> Sis620 does have support for this feature.
sylvain> PS: upgrade to 2.3.18 or above (NOT 2.3.22) because there were a LOT of
sylvain> optimizations in hard disk acces; ie : boot sequence is 2 or 3 times
sylvain> faster, launching X11 is 2 - 3 times faster too.


It seems latest ABIT motherboard took the DMA66 out again as with
current hard diks it seems to make very little difference. I havent
seen the board or the docs but thats what a friend just back from
Singapore hardware shopping told me

Best regards,
 
tracer

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