Re: [OT] bus speed for ata dvd-rw drive

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:25:29AM +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> No other options.
> hdparm -d1 /dev/hde gives
> 
> /dev/hde:
> setting using_dma to 1 (on)
> using_dma    =  1 (on)

So it is at least letting you enable DMA

> instead of previous 2.6X. I also in the mean time changed the original
> 80 pin cable (provided with mb) with a 40 pin one. I don't know if
> this could influence.

40pin limits you to UDMA33 but thts way higher than 5MByte/sec