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Re: ATA/66



On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 04:20:19AM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote:

>BTW: Is ATA/66 supported by Linux?  I remember that even the 33 made

  Dunno, I need to know as well for Promise controllers and 25GB,
5400rpm IBM IDE drives.

>I noticed that IBM released an amazing disk, with 22GB, Ultra-ATA/66,
>and 7200 RPM, with a price tag (US) of about $350. Does anybody know
>anything about it?  Should I expect any problem with Linux?

  The 25GB, 5400rpm works quite fine on Linux on ATA/33.  Like the 22GB
7200rpm, they have 2MB of cache -not bad for IDE-.

  If you need any test conducted on these drives...
alex