Now that I have QE/CI I want UDMA..

[JoeyKing]

...but I can't get it to work.

The first question is maybe a little silly, but...what Chipset do I actually have?

I have a Dell 4550. It has a Dell Mobo.

Windows says on one hand:

Intel 82801 DB Ultra ATA Controller Dev: 24CB Ven 8086

And also Intel 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV processor Dev 2560

...and a lot of other device IDs like 24xx

(taken from different views/entries in hardware manager)

 

Obviously I have a Intel chipset. it has UDMA 3 or 4, I think ATA100. Under XP the drives are fairly fast, under OsX they are surely PIO, not UDMA.

 

But if I google for 82801 DB, I find a lot of stuff related to sound??? I don't have onboard sound, since I have a soundcard....why should Dell sell this PC with a soundcard if it had onboard sound?

 

I tried what I found in this post:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=517#

But no success so far, maybe because this post is quite old, and I have 10.4.9 V1.3 uphuck.

 

Can someone point me into the right direction?

 

Another question: Where in OsX can I find the info whether I have PIO or UDMA?

 

Thanks

Joey

[JoeyKing]

I tried a little more.

OsX tells me at startup that some PIIAta Driver is too old and replaced by a new one, but, to be honest, I don'T quite get it.

 

How comes that I suddenly have two ATA drivers to be loaded?

 

Now this is really a part of my PC that I am ver unfamiliar with.

 

Maybe somebody is kind enough to answer some of my questions from above....

 

Thanks

Joey