Messages in this thread | | | From | "Anthony Barbachan" <> | Subject | Re: VIA IDE driver, v1.5 (final) | Date | Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:32:57 -0400 |
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> On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 05:41:59AM -0700, David Ford wrote: > > Is this a permanent plan? More and more options are being hammered into the > > append line and LILO has a limit as well as the limits of users understanding > > that they need to put that there. > > Well, I removed the splitfifo= option too, so the number remains > constant. Unfortunately there's no known way to find out whether the > 80-wire cable is installed, so the ata66 option seems to be a reasonable > solution. It's used for other IDE hardware (amd750) as well). >
I've seen several BIOSes that detect whether an 80-wire cable is plugged in or not. And when the 80 wire cable is not plugged in, the IDE is slowed down to UDMA-33. Perhaps these settings should be read from the BIOS if no other way is known. I'd also say to default to UDMA-66 as most motherboard that ship with support for it also provide an 80-wire cable.
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