On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:51:02 -0500 "Mark Shields" <laebshade@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'd also recommending after checking for the above, also check what
> level of UDMA is set. Try this: hdparm -I /dev/hda | grep -i dma
>
> Yours should say probably either udma3 or udma4.

Why not udma5 ? All my PATA drives (desktop and notebook) run at udma5
for some years now without any problems.

Cheers,
Renat

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