If you are using a Western Digital drive, make sure that the Mode is set to
UDMA66. They provide a floppy disk to do that with. If this is not done the
drive can behave differently. This system is using two 7200RPM WD drives
on the UDMA66 IDE3 port.
Don ....
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Civileme wrote:
>
> > 7.0 didn't really support UDMA/66 without a lot of tweaking. My guess is
> > that your WD drive cannot do UDMA66 even though it was advertised to do
> > such.
>
> Not impossible, but my drive doesn't work with any DMA mode in 7.1 (and
> it worked
> in 7.0 and in MSWindows).
>
> Another question directly related to that problem is what are the
> software or
> config files which have or could have an influence on the drive
> performances?
> I'm nearly certain that my problem doesn't come from the kernel. I know
> also
> that it's not hdparm (I tried the version included in 7.0).
>
> Philippe
