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> How does Linux support new motherboards? When you buy a board it usually
> comes with drivers for ATA, sound, etc. in the windows environment. How
> can I be sure that Linux is utilizing my MB to it's max? Especially the
> IDE. Are their particular boards to buy? To stay away from?
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> Doug
in case of IDE,
you can run hdparm -i and hdparm -I for information on the drive,
just to check if its running the udma mode you expect it to..
in this case there's a star on the "udma5" indicating its
selected. Which i know it should be since its connected
on an ultra 100 conroller (but warning, forcing a udma
mode on which you dont have hardware & driver will crash a disk).
also as the other poster suggested you could perform read
tests on the disks to see if the transfer rates are ok
(hdparm -tT).
[root@madugas root]# hdparm -i /dev/hde
/dev/hde:
Model=Maxtor 5T040H4, FwRev=TAH71DP0, SerialNo=T4HTEHMC
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes, LBAsects=80043264
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255)
Drive Supports : ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 0 : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5 ATA-6
JondZ
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