[Soekris] net5501 - Enabling udma/66+ and reliability

[Rune Petersen]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <497500C9.8010900 at megahurts.dk>, Rune Petersen writes:
> 
>> 1) Is there a "nicer" way to enable udma/66+ speeds on the net5501 rather than 
>> hacking the ata driver?
> 
> No, not currently.
> 
>> 2) Is the 80-wire simply broken on the net5501 or isn't udma/66+ speeds supported?
> 
> Søren didn't do the 80-wire trick correctly.

I just wanted to make sure that it wasn't intentional.

> 
>> 3) since it doesn't work "out of the box"; I have to ask if it is considered 
>> safe to run a SATA disk at udma/100.
> 
> You shouldn't get too much trouble with it, but the performance gain
> in practice is also limited.
> 

The reason I am interested in udma/100 is that I get ~57MB/s (hdparm) with it 
enabled on the net5501.



Thank you
Rune Petersen