Hi, There are 3 questions followed by an explanation.
1) Is there a "nicer" way to enable udma/66+ speeds on the net5501 rather than hacking the ata driver? 2) Is the 80-wire simply broken on the net5501 or isn't udma/66+ speeds supported? 3) since it doesn't work "out of the box"; I have to ask if it is considered safe to run a SATA disk at udma/100. In my current setup I have had to hack the driver source to always report 80-wire in order to get ata speeds above udma/33. Hardware: - net5501 - SATA Harddisk - WinTV PVR-500 Software: - GNU/Linux (Debian) Without the hack I get: "limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable" and read performance at 28MB/s (hdparm) which is a tad too slow for my purpose. With the hack I get: udma/100 (max. supported) and read performance at 57MB/s (hdparm) From the testing I have done (a days worth) udma/100 seams pretty stable. Rune Petersen _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
