On Mon, July 24, 2006 12:08 pm, Dion wrote: > UDMA66 is only good for 66 MB/s transfer rates.
> If your hard disk is brand new, it most likely supports ATA133 (133MB/s) > so it's capable of higher transfer rates than your motherboard supports. Dion, brand new, but, according to the specs, the HD is UDMA 5, '100Mb/s' (must've picked up a cheap brand..) is there anything to be done to enable 'max transfer speed', apart from setting UDMA in BIOS ? and, use 80wire ribbon > If you only have this one drive then I doubt the ATA transfer rate is > likely to bite. If you were building some kind of raid array with a number > of drives then it might make a difference. > > Mostly if anything, I'm thinking only the size of your hard drive might > cause problems if your bios didn't support one that large. > > One option you may try, is to go into your bios on that machine and > making sure you select an ide device not currently in use, try choosing to > manually set the number of cylinders / heads and so forth as listed on I guess I'll go and test the HD on the system, before I go too far. anyhow, now I'm thinking perhaps I should get a spare system, rather than, spare HD. thanks for your help -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
