hard disk problem

[Rohan Kulkarni]

But since the drive is Serial-ATA i think it should support UDMA-6.When I
enable "SATA as RAID" hdparm shows UDMA-6 but sets the drive to run in
UDMA5.
I get an error on running the command hdparm -X70 /dev/sda which sets UDMA6.

On 9/13/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
>
> Rohan Kulkarni wrote:
> > In my BIOS,I have only 2 options for hard disks..enable SATA as RAID or
> > enable SATA as IDE.By default it has selected "enable SATA as IDE".But
> > UDMA is set to UDMA5 by default and not UDMA6.I have to manually set it
> > to UDMA6 but still hdparm shows it as UDMA5.Do I need a reinstall of F7
> > with UDMA6 set????
> >
> A re-install is not going to make a difference. The first thing I
> would do is look at the specifications of your drive to make sure it
> supports UDMA6. Just because the controller supports it, does not
> mean the drive supports it. The output of hdparm suggests that it
> doesn't.
>
> Mikkel
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