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

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