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"Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe" wrote:
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> Prakash Advani wrote:
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> >If any one has a hardisk which supports Ultra ATA/66 or even ATA/100
> How do I find that out? I have a motherboard that says "MB-586VXU8". It has
> two VXPro-II chips inside. About IDE, the manual says:
> "PCI IDE controller supports PIO Mode 0 to Mode 4 at maximum transfer rate
> of 16.67 MB/s"
Modern Motherboards and Hard disks support DMA transfers
which is much faster than PIO (Programmed Input Output) so
with ATA66 compitable MB and HDD u should be able to get
good data transfer rate than PIO mode. In linux u can use
/sbin/hdparm util to program ur ide controler to use DMA
insteed of PIO. Pls read man pages of hdparm. With hdparm u
can check ur HDD's data transfer rates.
HTH
> Sameer.
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