Re: Promise PDC20269 - PIO Only?

From: Måns Rullgård
Date: Sat Oct 18 2003 - 18:44:46 EST


Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I've been using two Promise PDC20269 cards for almost a year now in
> my system. The cards are U133, but when the kernel boots up, I see
> the message that all the drives are operating in pio mode. All the
> drives are U133 drives, and they are shown as operating in DMA mode
> when I put them on another controller.

I've got a PDC20268. My boot messages also say PIO. However, it
still uses DMA by default. Check with "hdparm /dev/hdX" whether
your disks use DMA.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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