Harddisk speed: PIO4 vs. UDMA66 controller ?

2004-12-08 Thread Rob
Hi, I have a PII PC running 5.3. The output of 'dmesg' has a line: atapci0: VIA 82C596B UDMA66 controller [...] at device 7.1 on pci0 And at the end, it says: ad0: 43979MB IBM-DTLA-307045/TX6OA50C [89355/16/63] at ata0-master PIO4 acd0: CDROM CRD-8520B/1.00 at ata1-master PIO4 The harddisk is

Re: Harddisk speed: PIO4 vs. UDMA66 controller ?

2004-12-08 Thread Rob
Rob wrote: Hi, I have a PII PC running 5.3. The output of 'dmesg' has a line: atapci0: VIA 82C596B UDMA66 controller [...] at device 7.1 on pci0 And at the end, it says: ad0: 43979MB IBM-DTLA-307045/TX6OA50C [89355/16/63] at ata0-master PIO4 acd0: CDROM CRD-8520B/1.00 at ata1-master PIO4 The

Re: Harddisk speed: PIO4 vs. UDMA66 controller ?

2004-12-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:41:15PM +0900, Rob wrote: ad0: 43979MB IBM-DTLA-307045/TX6OA50C [89355/16/63] at ata0-master PIO4 acd0: CDROM CRD-8520B/1.00 at ata1-master PIO4 The harddisk is very new and can do UDMA100. With a UDMA66 controller I expect the harddisk to operate at least at 66