Re: FW: Fastest possible UDMA - how?

Manish Lachwani (m_lachwani@yahoo.com)
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:27:27 -0800 (PST)


If the drives support UDMA 2, then the controller will
operate in UDMA 2. In that case, the IDENTIFY
information will show UDMA 2 for UDMA mode selected
and UDMA 2 for UDMA mode supported.

Now, say that I have a drive that supports UDMA 6 and
the controller supports UDMA 5. Then, from the
IDENTIFY information, the UDMA selected would be UDMA
5 while the UDMA supported would be UDMA 6.

Thanks
manish
--- Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:04:03 PST, Manish Lachwani
> <m_lachwani@yahoo.com> said:
> > Take a look at the drive IDENTIFY data. From the
> ATA
> > spec, it can be seen that word# 88 in the IDENTIFY
> > data can help you find out the UDMA mode selected
> and
> > UDMA mode supported.
> >
> > The UDMA mode supported is the maximum supported
> by
> > the drive.
>
> Will this DTRT if the IDE *controller* does UDMA-5
> but the drives are UDMA-2
> at best?
>

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