It appears as though you are using a Promise Raid card for IDE? Does it
work fine with Linux? I was afraid to buy one for fear it would not
work.
Eugenio Diaz wrote:
>
> --- Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I liked it better in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, British
> > spelling or not. And the
> > "safe" defaults applied equally to all drives by the
> > script are not really
> > useful. One should do their own hdparm config to
> > wring the most from it.
>
> It is not a good idea to set parameters in your drive
> while some processes may be using it, i.e. rc.local!
>
> I just found that today when installing my Promise
> Ultra66.
>
> BTW, Chmouel, I noticed that the hdparm in the
> mandrake_everytime sets the dma flag "-d1" without
> setting the "-X" flag. I had some problems with
> Western Digital drives crashing my computer while
> testing, by setting flags one at a time; when I got to
> the -d1 it just crashed the system. If I did it
> together with the -X66 then it was fine.
>
> Also, the highest mode I could set was -X66 with a
> WDC307 and the Promise Ultra66 card. It says "Speed
> unsupported or something like that. But the drive says
> it supports "UDMA 4"?
>
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