HEADS UP: Check your devices' UDMA settings - *TEMPORARY* *WORKAROUND*

[Nathan Bahn]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> Nathan Bahn wrote:
> > So, if I'm understanding you correctly (a BIG if, admittedly), then
> > S.A.T.A. hard drives are NOT affected by this bug; is my
> > understanding correct? (and by the way, thanks that response to my
> > question in the other thread!)
>
> No, SATA drives are not affected because they have a different hardware
> interface.
>
> The IDE drives have a parallel interface with 40 or 80 wires cables. If
> the cable has 40 wires it can only handle up to 33 MB/s transfer rate.
> For higher transfer rates the cable needs 80 wires but the cable
> detection seems to be unreliable, at least with the hardware of the OP.
>
> The SATA interface is not an improved version of the IDE interface but a
> non-compatible replacement with only 7 wires.
>
>
> Nils
>
> --
>



N.K.--
Thanks for the info!
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