[mythtv-users] How much horespower for frontend?

James Pifer jep at obrien-pifer.com
Thu Sep 28 13:55:41 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 09:18 -0400, John Drescher wrote:
> Ok. After looking at the hdparm -i /dev/hdX results see that there is
> nothing wrong with the cabling with hda and hdb. However hdc and hdd
> are running at udma2 and this is a big problem as it will seriously
> limit the drives bandwith (to 33MB/s combined). I checked and both
> drives support udma5 which is 133MB/s burst transfers. I believe the
> reason for this is you are not using an 80 pin cable for these
> drives. 
> 
> John

I'll swap the cable on these two drives and see what I get.

Thanks,
James



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