Re: [preview] Latest AMD & VIA IDE drivers with UDMA100 support

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:25:27 +0100


On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:04:50AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> > Well, I know this. But I fear hardcoded timings won't really help here,
> > unless everyone out there ran their chipsets at 33 MHz, in which case the
>
> You have to run the ATA Chipset at 33MHz or it will fail in 99% of all
> cases.

No. Though I'd advise everyone to stick with 33MHz PCI when they can
because it is safe. But even the VIA specs mention 25, 37.5 and 41.5 PCI
speeds.

> This is not the FSB running at 66/83/100/133. So hardcode is
> correct.

If you set a MVP3 or MVP4 chipset to 83 MHz FSB, you'll get 41.5 MHz
or 27.6 MHz PCI. And there are chips speced for 75 and 83 MHz FSB's -
Cyrix 6x86MX etc.

No way to get 33 here, if you *don't* want to over/under-clock the CPU.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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