eGreat M31A - How to run HDD in UDMA6 mode

6. August 2010 13:07

By default - the eGreat do not detect 80-wire cable wich is required for transfers higher than UDMA2, simply because using SATA for connecting HDD and IDE port is unused. How to switch into UDMA6?

Read this...

 

dmesg (UDMA2)

ide0: SMP863x/SMP865x Bus Mastering IDE controller
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: WDC WD10EADS-00M2B0, ATA DISK drive
hda: no 80 conductors cable, falling back to lower udma mode
hda: set to Ultra DMA mode 2
ide0: DMA enabled for ATA DISK hda
ide0 at 0x223c0-0x223c7,0x22398 on irq 26
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 1953525168 sectors (1000204 MB) w/32767KiB Cache, CHS=65535/255/63, UDMA(33)


Now, how to switch to UDMA6?

simply, by connecting pin #34 on IDE port to GND (Ground)

Image...


dmesg (UDMA6)

ide0: SMP863x/SMP865x Bus Mastering IDE controller
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: WDC WD10EADS-00M2B0, ATA DISK drive
hda: set to Ultra DMA mode 6
ide0: DMA enabled for ATA DISK hda
ide0 at 0x223c0-0x223c7,0x22398 on irq 26
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 1953525168 sectors (1000204 MB) w/32767KiB Cache, CHS=65535/255/63

 

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