I am looking at buying another system myself. I have never heard of ATA
though. Is it something I should want, or just more hype? Is it likely
to be supported under Linux 2.2?
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
george bonser wrote,
1) Ultra ATA 33 (UATA) hard drives
No
For ATA drives, you need a special ISA card. My HD (Maxtor 3.5) supports it,
but
I haven't bought the add-on card yet. It supposed to be superFAST (I think
almost
as fast as SCSI). I think the card is around $70 from CompUSA.
Britton wrote:
I am looking at buying another system myself. I
As it says on my HD box:
Buffer Size:
256KB
Average Seek time:
10MS
Data Transfer Rate:
33.0 MB/Sec
(Ultra DMA-Mode 2)
Ultra DMA is also known as Ultra ATA. It has twice the speed of IDE drives.
George Bonser wrote:
ATA is, I do not think the problem I think ATA is short for ATAPI.
On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 07:57:10PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
ATA is, I do not think the problem I think ATA is short for ATAPI.
Not exactly; ATAPI is ATA Peripheral Interface, with ATA
being the AT Attachment IIRC, with AT being Advanced Technology
(cough) :-)
Hamish
--
Hamish Moffatt,
george bonser wrote,
1) Ultra ATA 33 (UATA) hard drives
No linux supports ATA33 as far as I know. If you can put the drives in
EIDE mode (as most will), Linux will work fine.
There is a patch (I forget where, but it's out there) for the kernel to
support them. I tried it, but my
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