Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre4-ac1

[Allan Duncan <allan.d@bigpond.com>]

Tomas Szepe wrote:
> 
> > > > "Warning: Limiting speed since you did not use an 80-conductor cable"
> > >
> > > Pronouns should generally be avoided in formulations such as this one,
> > > simply because there's no way to tell who it really was who didn't use
> > > an 80-conductor cable. Go with a passive sentence instead.
> >
> > "Warning: The speed was limited because the 80-conductor cable wasn't used
> > (and got annoyed for that reason)."?
> > "Warning: 80-conductor cable wasn't, so it must have been the speed
> > which got used to reducing itself."
> 
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
> VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> hda: ST380021A, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W2410A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hdd: CD-532E-B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> ide0:
>     It appears an 80-conductor cable is not in use.
>     => Transfer rates above UDMA2 won't work.
> ide1:
>     It appears an 80-conductor cable is not in use.
>     => Transfer rates above UDMA2 won't work.
> ...

Maybe "80-conductor cable (ATA-66+)" would cover more bases.