jludwig said: > On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 18:28, William Hooper wrote: >> jludwig said: >> > I might add that I see nothing about bus speed. The default for linux >> > has been 33Mhz for IDE systems (adding idebus=133 quadruples drive >> > speed). >> >> I highly doubt you have a 133MHz PCI bus. I also doubt you have tested >> to >> verify this "quadrupule" drive speed. >> >> -- >> William Hooper > > Correct, newer systems do support this speed. Not unless you have PCI-X and a PCI-X hard drive controller. > Also the hard drive(s) > must be considered in this issue. Hard drives have nothing to do with the PCI bus speed. -- William Hooper