Re: PCI bus speed

From: Tim Hockin (thockin@hockin.org)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2001 - 11:42:37 EST


> On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 06:47:49PM -0400, chen, xiangping wrote:
>
> > Is there any easy way to probe the PCI bus speed of an Intel box?
>
> You can find about PCI33 or PCI66 standards but there is no way to find
> the exact clock rate the PCI bus is actually clocked at. Which is a
> problem with certain non-compliant cards; the IOC3 card and a few others
> derive internal clocks from the PCI bus clock rate so will not properly
> work if operated on a bus with different clock rate.

Also, many IDE controllers do this. GACK!

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