Re: Absolutely horrid IDE performance...

Philip Blundell (pb@nexus.co.uk)
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 10:07:58 +0100

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>Be glad that your BIOS locks you out of UDMA with a PIIX3 HX board, or
>you would not be able to boot at all...........
>
>The HX can decode UDMA but is to stupid to handle it, it is a true
>hardware problem by design. UDMA did not exist when PIIX3 was released.

Does this apply to PIIX3 VX boards as well -- ie is it the PIIX3 at fault or
something else on the motherboard?

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