At 09:54 AM 1/25/2002 -0500, you wrote: >About Tiger IDE controller: if I see in 'dmesg' output UDMA(100), does it >really mean my system is working at it? Or is there any other way to be >quite sure that my 7200 rpm ATA 100 HD is working as expected? > >I've been heard about AMD chipset issues (AGP, IDE controller, etc). I >hope to have a 'treasure map' with the help of you all guys :) before >getting a Tyan mobo.
Not sure what you are looking for but you can try a couple of simple tests: run 'hdparm /dev/hdx" (x = hard drive) run "'hdparm -i /dev/hdx" This should tell you if DMA is turned on, and what mode you are using, i.e. UDMA4 or UDMA5. run "hdparm -tT /dev/hdx" This should give you some speed ranges of your drive. J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT System Administrator -Art is the illusion of spontaneity-
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