Re: Has The performance been forgotten?

[Rasmus Back <rasmus back gmail com>]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:12:14 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams 

SNIP

> Are you sure, under LINUX, that you've hot DMA enabled and running your
> IDE bus at 66?  Often, for safety, they default to minimum standards.  I
> always have the change idebus=33 to idebus=66 on a SuSe install.

The idebus paramater specifies the clock frequency for the PCI bus,
not the transfer rate. The PCI clock frequency for consumer grade
motherboards is 33 MHz so the default value should be fine.

Rasmus