[wellylug] Configuring HD

[Damon Lynch]

On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 10:55, sljudd at paradise.net.nz wrote:

> It seems that basically Linux' IDE drivers assume a lowest common denominator 
> in performance, unless you (with hdparm and kernel parameters) tell it how to 
> take advantage of DMA etc.

Not really :-)  It depends on whether the south-bridge is recognised,
and therefore set to the proper values accordingly.  If it's not, then
what you saw will be very true.

Damon
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Damon Lynch <damon at dev-zone.org>


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