[ILUG] hard disk

[Paul Askins]

UDMA66 is faster than 33, but only if you have a '66 controller card and the
propper software.  With the 2.2.13 kernel there isn't a whole lot of
performance increase.
The '66 drives will work on a standard EIDE interface.  You may need to check
if your BIOS will support a large hard disk.  If it's old, like my P166, you
wont get anyting greater than 8.4G on it without a BIOS flash update form the
manufacturers web site.

Paul.

On 08-Mar-00 Dermot Gorman wrote:
 Hi,
 way off topic but - I'm buyin a new EIDE hard disk, could anybody
 tell me what the difference between UDMA33 and UDMA66 is.
 Will it work on an older motherboard, i.e. of pentium 166 vintage?
 Dermot.
 
-- 
Paul Askins <:)
Email:  Paul Askins <paul.askins at adbvdesign.analog.com>
Date:   08-Mar-00, 12:41:17

Anyone can make something work. 
But it takes an engineer to make it *barely* work.