On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:16:39AM +0000, Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an Intel DE815EEA motherboard, complete with
> two IBM 30Gb ATA100 disks.  When the kernel boots,
> I'm happily informed that the drives are operating
> at UltraDMA mode 5 (which is ATA100).
> 
> Do the drives actually operate at Mode 5 or is it a
> lesser mode (such as in other OS's like Li**x)?

The kernel prints 2 infos: what the drive supports, and what the
kernel uses. You should get these two lines with a 'dmesg' | grep wd0

I don't remenber if ATA-100 support was in 1.5 or if it has been pulled up
later ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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