Re: Flash Back -- kernel 2.1.111

Jeff Garzik
2002-02-24T21:46:38Z

Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> I have some experimental IDE based code which can detect the PCI bus
> speed by doing some IDE transfers and measuring the time it takes. It
> isn't 100% reliable, though. I haven't found any other way to detect PCI
> clock reliably, unfortunately it cannot be safely guessed from the CPU
> clock or FSB clock or anything.

Maybe your code cannot detect the "right answer" perfectly, but at least
it could be useful as a sanity check, to let you know if the timings/bus
speed are wildly off...

Jeff

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