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The Linux Ultra-DMA Mini-Howto

Brion Vibber,

v2.1, 27 May 1999


This document is intended to explain how to use Ultra-DMA aka Ultra-ATA aka Ultra33 and Ultra66 hard drives and interfaces with Linux. The most recent version of this mini-Howto can be obtained in HTML format at http://pobox.com/~brion/linux/Ultra-DMA.html.

1. Introduction

2. What is Ultra-DMA and why do I want it?

3. Using your UDMA hard drive with an EIDE interface

4. Using your hard drives with a UDMA interface

5. Offboard PCI UDMA interfaces

6. Onboard UDMA interfaces

7. UDMA-Generic

8. Activating and Deactivating UDMA

9. Problems

10. If you have some information about UDMA stuff that's not in this mini-howto...


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