Hi Chris, Today I submitted my requirements to the dealer who will put together my computer. The only problem the dealer has is that he doesn't think he can obtain a Western Digital DMA33 drive, only a DMA66. I read somewhere that by using the standard cable for EIDE drives with a DMA33 drive you would get the slower speed . Is this also true for DMA66 drives? Are DMA66 drives backward compatible with EIDE drives? I am not interested in faster speeds as I do not use linux to play games. Thanks in advance Joseph Zieniewicz -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
"Example user SuSE Linux 6.3" wrote:
Today I submitted my requirements to the dealer who will put together my computer. The only problem the dealer has is that he doesn't think he can obtain a Western Digital DMA33 drive, only a DMA66. I read somewhere that by using the standard cable for EIDE drives with a DMA33 drive you would get the slower speed . Is this also true for DMA66 drives? Are DMA66 drives backward compatible with EIDE drives? I am not interested in faster speeds as I do not use linux to play games.
If you tell it to use DMA33, then Linux shouldn't have a problem with it. You may be able to run it at DMA66 - if not now, then sometime in the future. You'll just get the performance of the usual DMA33, whihc isn't too bad anyway. Hope that helps, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi, On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 18:15 -0500, Example user SuSE Linux 6.3 wrote:
Today I submitted my requirements to the dealer who will put together my computer. The only problem the dealer has is that he doesn't think he can obtain a Western Digital DMA33 drive, only a DMA66. I read somewhere that by using the standard cable for EIDE drives with a DMA33 drive you would get the slower speed . Is this also true for DMA66 drives? Are DMA66 drives backward compatible with EIDE drives? I am not interested in faster speeds as I do not use linux to play games.
They are backwards compatible. You can savely use a UDMA 66 drive with a UDMA 33 controller. Plus UDMA 66 drives are certainly not faster than UDMA 33 drives. Even fast HDs cannot deliver 33 MByte/s maximum transfer rate so a UDMA 33 controller does not slow things down. Ciao, Stefan -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
* Stefan Troeger (stefan.troeger@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de) [000217 00:08]:
They are backwards compatible. You can safely use a UDMA 66 drive with a UDMA 33 controller.
In theory yes, in practice no :( Some UDMA33 controllers get confused when confronted with a UDMA66 disk. That's why most disk manufacturers offer a tool from their web sites to make the disks identify themselves as UDMA33 ones. But normally it does work. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de> SuSE GmbH, Deutschherrenstrasse 15-29, 90429 Nuremberg The only difference between a bug and a feature is you can turn a feature off. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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