Re: [newbie] HD SATA

2003-09-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 5:04 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > Yes, that info plus some other stuff I didn't really > understand was in the Net reports I've read. Also it was predicted > that before SATA catches on, we'll be movin into PCI-eXpress ;) > Now to my mind, that's where the improvement wa

Re: [newbie] HD SATA

2003-09-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 2 2003 10:35 am, Frankie wrote: > >OTOH, I don't believe SATA is that much if any improvement > > over ATA/133. I've read Net reports to that affect. Some > > Mandrake users have posted SATA hdparm -Tt numbers on various > > groups an forums, an they're all less then the n

Re: [newbie] HD SATA

2003-09-02 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 3:18 pm, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > 2800+ Athlon XP and a Asus a7n8x Deluxe with x 2 sata150 7200 120gb > Seagate's. I have tried to speed them up using hdparm -X66 -d1 but them > still use a lot of cpu and still brought my system down but it did speed > them up. I did want to us

Re: [newbie] HD SATA

2003-09-02 Thread L.V.Gandhi
Just my cat /var/log/messages|grep ATA ep 3 05:16:14 lvghomepc kernel: SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:0b.0 Sep 3 05:16:14 lvghomepc kernel: SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2 Sep 3 05:16:14 lvghomepc kernel: SiI3112 Serial ATA: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs late

Re: [newbie] HD SATA

2003-09-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday September 3 2003 09:26 am, Eko Budiharto wrote: > Hi Tom, > isn't the 9.2 still beta? If not, can you tell me where you get > the non beta version? It's not so much a Mandrake version deal, as it is kernel and driver. Promise recently released their SATA driver under the GPL, a

Re: [newbie] HD SATA

2003-09-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 2 2003 05:58 am, Eko Budiharto wrote: > Hi, > have anyone of you ever installed in SATA with MDK? > Is HD SATA working with MDK? In 9.2 yes, I don't know about 9.1 an older. I have a SATA port, but no SATA drive. So I can't say how well it works. -- Tom Brinkman