[rescue] u2 drive trays

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Frank Van Damme wrote:

> This one is really, really hard to weed out. While the ide protocol obviously
> sucks, the bus does not "negotiate till the lowest spec". An udma33 and an
> udma133 disk will each operate at their own speed.

Are you speaking from theory or practice?  I'm speaking from practice.

> They will fight for bandwidth however. Also, these speeds don't get
> used automatically, you have to set the right settings (with eg hdparl
> on linux).

There are similar settings for 'doze, as well.

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