Thanks James, Have never owned a mobo with ATA-66 on-board, so did not think to look there :-). Win98 does not seem to report it anywhere and search of net did not bring up anything.
Regards, Rich On 11 Jun 2006 at 2:32, James Fadden wrote: > You can usually get the nominal speed from within the BIOS setup > screens (on older Dells press <DEL>, on later ones, <F2>) > on the page for IDE configuration. It will probably be listed > by transfer mode which can be translated to speed, e.g.: > > PIO Mode 4/DMA Mode 2 = 16 MB/sec (*) > UDMA Mode 2 = 33 > UDMA Mode 4 = 66 > UDMA Mode 5 = 100 > etc. > > (*) to be picky, DMA Multiword Mode 2 is 16.6. Singleword > is 8.3, but that was rarely used. More details on modes here: > > http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/modes.htm -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
