Re: IDE problem: linux-2.5.17

Andre Hedrick
2002-05-23T18:46:27Z

Not true at all.

Many of the OEM's use 40c's to do 66 and 100, just they have to be very
high quality and about 6" in length.

On Thu, 23 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:

> > I have 40 wires cable. When ide=nodma is passed to 2.5.17 kernel -
> > kernel boots. Am I correct that it is not possible to have DMA
> > on with such cable? Is there any reason for doing that?
>
> 40-conductor IDE cables are capable of transfering data
> in DMA modes up to udma2, but no faster.
>
> T.
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Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group