> On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 05:41:59AM -0700, David Ford wrote:
> > Is this a permanent plan? More and more options are being hammered into
the
> > append line and LILO has a limit as well as the limits of users
understanding
> > that they need to put that there.
>
> Well, I removed the splitfifo= option too, so the number remains
> constant. Unfortunately there's no known way to find out whether the
> 80-wire cable is installed, so the ata66 option seems to be a reasonable
> solution. It's used for other IDE hardware (amd750) as well).
>
I've seen several BIOSes that detect whether an 80-wire cable is plugged in
or not. And when the 80 wire cable is not plugged in, the IDE is slowed
down to UDMA-33. Perhaps these settings should be read from the BIOS if no
other way is known. I'd also say to default to UDMA-66 as most motherboard
that ship with support for it also provide an 80-wire cable.
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