determining UDMA rate

I have a 40 pin ribbon on an ide drive (which supports udma100, at least) I know the board only goes up to udma66. do I need an 80 pin ribbon for that? looking at hdparm, I cannot see how to determine the present udma rate. how is that done? // George BTW - this is a scsi box, just adding and

Re: determining UDMA rate

On Saturday 18 January 2003 11:50 am, George Georgalis wrote: I have a 40 pin ribbon on an ide drive (which supports udma100, at least) I know the board only goes up to udma66. do I need an 80 pin ribbon for that? looking at hdparm, I cannot see how to determine the present udma rate. how

Re: determining UDMA rate

hi ya george On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, George Georgalis wrote: I have a 40 pin ribbon on an ide drive (which supports udma100, at least) 40 conductor cables does NOT electrically support anything faster than ata33 -- ( too much crosstalk at faster speeds ) they really should have used a