Re: [Sheflug] System bus speeds...

[Gary Stimson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:17 12/09/02 +1200, you wrote:
>Does anyone know if there's a way to convince the OS to tell me what speed
>the system bus is running at?  I've got this new workstation here (an IBM
>NetVista) with ATA100 disk, etc etc (Ooh, *shiny* :P).  The kernel's IDE
>code assumes a system bus speed of 33MHz,

Try hdparm

Beware that kernels released 10-15 months ago contained buggy IDE drivers 
that corrupted disks when used at high IDE bus speeds. IIRC it was a 
problem with the DMA code. I installed a machine with redhat 7.1 12 months 
ago and had to drop it back to 7.0 to stop it corrupting disks. I believe 
the problem was solved a few kernels later and the kernel in redhat 7.2+ is OK.

Gary


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