dang, PowerEdge 350 HDD cable concerns and a config question

[John Hodrien]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, watchman wrote:

> a.	The PowerEdge 350 has 40pin ATA cables, instead of 80 pin UltraDMA
> ATA/33/66/133 cables.  UltraDMA production started in 1996

That's true, but 80pin cables are not mandatory for modes up to UDMA2
(33Mbytes/sec).  And since the cable is detectable, the controller should
simply step the performance down appropriately.  If you're actually getting
problems I'd suggest it's due to low quality 40 pin cabling, or a fault of the
controller.  It's still a bit tight.

jh

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