[H-GEN] New Machine (UDMA support)

[Stephen Brine]

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Well I am running a celery 333 with all the UDMA enabled in the bios and no 
kernel errors now that is with MDK-6.1 with kernel 2.2.13. So it might be a 
case of that has support (I am still fairly new to this so if it is crap 
then just let it pass by :) )

Steve B


At 10:09 7/12/99 , you wrote:
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>Daniel Quinlan wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 02:54:45PM +1000, Frank Brand wrote:
>
> > > However, in many cases the OBSERVABLE difference in performance 
> between a $185
> > > Celeron 466 and a $500 Athlon 500 will be very, very 
> little...especially in
> > > systems such as Linux without the full high speed UDMA support, video 
> support,
> > > high speed RAM etc. etc.
>
> > I was wondering about that. is UDMA support in the pipeline?
>
>Yep. Check out www.kernelnotes.org for all the goss. UDMA/66 is
>definitely in 2.3 and it may already be backported to 2.2, though I
>haven't checked.
>
> > Daniel Quinlan                          daniel at netwise.net.au
>
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