Re: disk problems or false alarm??

["William Hooper" <whooperhsd3 earthlink net>]

jludwig said:
> On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 18:28, William Hooper wrote:
>> jludwig said:
>> > I might add that I see nothing about bus speed. The default for linux
>> > has been 33Mhz for IDE systems (adding idebus=133 quadruples drive
>> > speed).
>>
>> I highly doubt you have a 133MHz PCI bus.  I also doubt you have tested
>> to
>> verify this "quadrupule" drive speed.
>>
>> --
>> William Hooper
>
> Correct, newer systems do support this speed.

Not unless you have PCI-X and a PCI-X hard drive controller.

> Also the hard drive(s)
> must be considered in this issue.

Hard drives have nothing to do with the PCI bus speed.

-- 
William Hooper