Abit is nice and supplies the cable when you buy the motherboard. As
for the hardware I selected it to run fast out of the box. As soon as
cooker settles down a bit I will give it a try. The machine this
hardware is on is my so called production machine (school machine).
Greg
Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> Greg Sarsons wrote:
> >
> > KT7-Raid ...
> >
> > The board supports DMA/33 and Ultra DMA/66 on IDE1/2 and ata-100(or
> > UDMA100 if you like) on IDE3/4 using a HPT370 controller. The IBM
> > Deskstar Ultra ATA100 7200rpm drive is on ide3.
> >
> > I haven't had time to play around hdparm yet so this is what the default
> > settings are reporting.
> >
> > Timing buffer-cache 128 MB in .74 seconds = 172.97 MB/sec
> > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.8 seconds = 35.56 MB/sec
>
> Your default is pretty good - after tweaking, I get the same 35MB/sec
> cached throughput on ATA100, DMA 5. You know that UDMA 66 and above
> reqires a special short (max 12") 80-conductor cable between the 40
> pin plugs, don't you? I use a special ATA100 circular cross-section
> cable about 65 cm in length which makes things much easier to arrange
> in the box And that the master should be at the end of the cable,
> with any slave connected to the middle connector.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ron. [au]
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