Am Sonntag 02 Mai 2004 13:26 schrieb Alexander Dalloz: > [ Sorry, my first reply from yesterday got eaten by the list manager ] > [SNIP] > > Normally the kernel automatically sets the proper transfer rate and mode > automagically. There are just few cases where it makes sense to override > that manually. > > I does not only matter for which transaction mode your hard drive is > capable but also which modes the IDE bus controller chip supports. Given > that your motherboard/IDE controller supports UDMA5 too like your hard > drive, then you can change the mode with:0)100MB/sec > > hdparm -X69 /dev/hdX > > But if your motherboard only supports ATA33 (UDMA2) or you have just a > 40pin IDE ribbon cable the change will not happen or change anything. > [SNIP] > > Alexander > > P.S. Reading now that it was the wrong cable. One of the factors I > mentioned. Thanks for ur help ! Gotta wait until tomorrow, to by two new IDE cables. I still can't believe, that I never noticed that before. :-) bit
