Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:33:58 +0200 (CEST) | From | Krzysztof Oledzki <> | Subject | Re: SATA speed. Should be 150 or 133? |
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Mark Lord wrote:
> True SATA drives ignore the "transfer speed", > as it really is meaningless and does not apply. So, am I the the only person confused by this message? ;) There is "SATA max UDMA/133" not "PATA max UDMA/133".
> But most (all?) first-gen SATA drives are really > PATA drives with a SATA bridge built-in. > Some of those drives require that Linux set the > DMA transfer speed for them to work reliably. Oh, so how to check true (current) speed?
> Last I looked, the highest valid PATA transfer > speed was still "UDMA/133". 150 just plain > doesn't exist for PATA (and the whole concept > doesn't exist for SATA, so ..) OK :)
Best regards,
Krzysztof Olędzki
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