On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, George M. Butler wrote: > Hi all, > > release does not support the IDE UDMA/100 mode. I have read the Howto > Doc on UDMA > but I am afraid that it did not seem clear to me. Does it even matter > if the kernel supports the > UDMA/100? The ASUS manual says that the board supports IDE UDMA/33 > standard. What are the issues here? Thanks for any help you can give > me.
In your case, it won't matter. Hard drives are forward and backwards compatible, up to a point(had some problems with an old 340 megger on an HPT366, but the hpt366 has its own problems as it is <grin>) Your drive will quite happily clock down to the ultra/33 that your motherboard supports. _Worst_ case, is you'll need to download the hd manufacturer's utility to set ultra/33 if the onboard controller can't talk to the drive properly. mike