Both are older, non-UDMA drives. That's why I left them on the motherboard.
> What is the mainboard nad bios revision?
Abit IT5H rev 1.5 I'll check the BIOS revision when I get home later.
>> hde: IBM-DHEA-38451, 8063MB w/472kB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63, UDMA
>
> There are now three DMA reporting states of IDE-devices.
>
> A trailing tag with UDMA is considered, 100% native.
> A trailing tag with (U)DMA is considered, native capable (forgot to enable)
> A trailing tag with DMA is considered, straight Multi/Single Word native.
>
> There are currently no reporting point to date that report the mode level.
> That is DMA can be DMA mode 2/1/0 as multi or single word, thus 6 possible
> mode levels are blanketed under this trailing TAG. Note that (U)DMA is
> reverted to any of these mode levels, also. UDMA will be UDMA mode 2/1/0,
> thus 3possiblemode levels are blanketed under this trailing TAG.
Ok, are you suggesting that I should somehow find out which mode is correct
for each drive and set it with something like hdparm? How might I do this?
-- Daniel Nash
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