On Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 08:19:54AM -0500, Charles Greene wrote:
> I'm looking at an AMD K6-2, but I read in Linux Journal that it had some bugs for
>Linux. Anyone experience any?
Still running K6 here, but want to upgrade to K6-2 in the new year.
Please let me know anything you find out. K6 works you-beaut.
> Some newer systems have an " 6.4GB Ultra DMA Hard Drive" as opposed to an EIDE Hard
>Drive. Any comments on this? Does Linux support such a beast?
UDMA is the next thing after EIDE. Extra speed mostly. Linux will ignore
it if your controller doesn't support it (I'm using an Intel 430HX based
board; you need 430TX or better for UDMA); don't know if you can use it
if your controller has it -- the answer is probably "in kernel 2.1".
Hamish
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