NASLite Network Attached Storage

NAS has stated one can use higher capacity drives , up to 160gb on older mainboards , like a pentium 200mhz. On such a board, the ata transfers were at best 33mhz. What happens to a ata 100 or 133 mhz drive attached to such a system. Would it, I'm assuming, drop down to ata 33mhz transfer speed?

chang

That's correct.

33 MB per second is not likley to be a limiting factor.
Head motion and rotational latency of seeks will be unless you
are doing long streaming reads and have a very fast disk.

Under 100mbit ether my various samba servers never sustain
more than 8mb per second. Though I have been getting the
urge to try gigabit :)

How would you enable speeds greater than ata 33 if you know your controller onboard is a 66 or 100 but the naslite boot does not see it as such??

there is a message during boot about enabling it with the parameter dma=xx (66 I assume) but I have no idea how/where to get to this and make the change.

If you are running a Mbit floppy version, then DMA is NOT supported. DMA support is available and automatically enabled in NASLite+ as well as the Gbit floppies.

I created the floppy from the CDROM that contains the images. I am trying to help configure this for a buddy of mine who is a little less than linux savy.

so if this is the naslite + then DMA is already enabled so his transfer rate is already as good as it can get (something around 2meg/s on 100mps)

That would be NASLite and NOT NASLite+. NASLite-SMB/NFS/FTP do not support DMA.