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I think (not sure) that the PCI bus
always runs at 33Mhz to make the cards cheaper. ISA used to run at the speed of
the CPU so when the CPU's went faster the cards had to go faster. Therefore PCI
was created as a standard speed.
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Stephen Vernon
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 1:17
AM
Subject: [Sheflug] System bus
speeds...
Hi all
Does anyone know if there's a way to convince the
OS to tell me what speed
the system bus is running at? I've got this
new workstation here (an IBM
NetVista) with ATA100 disk, etc etc (Ooh,
*shiny* :P). The kernel's IDE
code assumes a system bus speed of
33MHz, but I suspect that's way too
low. If it helps, the CPU has a
400MHz front-side bus, the RAM is
PC133-compliant, and the vendor's "tech"
specs, from their own web site,
don't tell me anything else. Any
ideas?
Cheers
R
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