Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Western Digital hard drive and DMA | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 09 Sep 2002 22:06:40 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 23:28, Adam Jaskiewicz wrote: > > if you have noisy cables and someone turns off udma, > > yes, you could certainly see corruption. if you can > > possibly ever use udma, it's a very good idea to do so; > > How do I enable UDMA as opposed to just DMA? I was having trouble with DMA, > but no trouble (other than VERY slow access) without DMA. I have an 80 > conductor cable SOMEWHERE (probably in the bottom of a box in the basement > lol) but im almost certain the cables in there now arent more than 18 inches, > as its a fairly stock Dell system, and has the original ribbon cables.
UDMA is on so that doesn't explain what is happening at all
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