Re: Absolutely horrid IDE performance...

Nate Thompson (nate@thebog.ml.org)
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 22:54:31 +0000


Mark Lord Said:
> Ooops.. wait a minute.. you said:
>
> >ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
>
> The Intel PIIX chip does not support UDMA.

Ummm..... What? Yes it does. Either that or I have been horribly lied
to by everything I've seen elsewhere?!?!?! I have a gigabyte 686lx
board that is UDMA, and Linux Kernel detects the same chip as above.
(Granted, I haven't ever bothered to play around with hdparm, I just
always seem to end up doing something else instead ...)

Nate

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