Subject: Re: motherboard recommendations?
To: Christoph Kaegi <kgc@zhwin.ch>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/08/2002 12:34:28
On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Christoph Kaegi wrote:
> Can the controller speak UDMA5 to the disk and, say, UDMA2 to the CD-ROM,
> or will the whole channel be downgraded to UDMA2?
I don't recall what the system said about what it was using, but I can
say from experience that including a UDMA2 device on the same bus as a
UDMA5 IBM IDE disk slowed down the IBM IDE disk, at least under NetBSD-current
as of about four months ago.
cjs
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