Despite, the best information available, it is surprising how many people need proof that their SiI cards are working.

In OS4:
Simply run idetool with the '-l' (that's 'ell') option:

    idetool -l sii0680ide.device

3.OS4:> idetool -l sii0680ide.device -------------------Unit 0 information------------------------        Flags : $00000185 - present, supports DMA, ATA, supports cache flush, interrupts used,        Xfer mode : best pio / best dma / current : 12 / 69 / 69        Total blocks : 156301488        Blocksize : 512        Power mode : 2 / idle (ready for operation)        IO1 / IO2 / BMCR @ : $802400 / $80240A / $802420 *** Error opening device sii0680ide.device / unit 1 -------------------Unit 2 information------------------------        Flags : $0000011D - present, supports DMA, removable media, ATAPI, interrupts used,        Xfer mode : best pio / best dma / current : 12 / 66 / 66        Total blocks : 310872        Blocksize : 2048        Packet spec : 5        Packet size : 12        Current medium read speed : x 65535 ('65535' stands for max.)        Current medium write speed : x 65535 (idem)        Power mode : 2 / idle (ready for operation)        IO1 / IO2 / BMCR @ : $802410 / $80241A / $802428 *** Error opening device sii0680ide.device / unit 3 3.OS4:>

The last value for Xfer mode (shown in red above) is the current value for the device. In the above example, unit 0 is a hard disk running at pio mode 69 (100MB/s), and unit 2 is a CDROM drve running at pio mode 66 (33MB/s), both UDMA modes.

In Debian Linux:
Open a Terminal Command Line window as 'Root', and type the following:

    cat /proc/ide/hda/settings
    cat /proc/ide/hdc/settings

AmigaAK:~# cat /proc/ide/hda/settings name ---- acoustic address bios_cyl bios_head bios_sect breada_readahead bswap current_speed failures file_readahead init_speed io_32bit keepsettings lun max_failures max_kb_per_request multcount nicel nowerr number pio_mode slow unmaskirq using_dma wcache value ----- 0 1 9729 255 63 8 0 69 0 124 69 0 0 0 1 128 16 1 0 0 write-only 0 0 1 0 min --- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 max --- 254 2 65535 255 63 255 10 70 65535 16384 70 1 1 7 65535 255 16 1 1 3 255 1 1 1 1 mode ---- rw rw rw rw rw rw r rw rw rw rw rw rw rw rw rw rw rw rw rw w rw rw rw rw AmigaAK:~# cat /proc/ide/hdc/settings name ---- breada_readahead current_speed failures file_readahead init_speed io_32bit keepsettings max_kb_per_request nicel number pio_mode slow unmaskirq using_dma AmigaAK:~# value ----- 4 66 1 0 66 0 0 64 1 2 write-only 0 0 1 min --- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 max --- 127 70 1 2097151 70 1 1 127 1 3 255 1 1 1 mode ---- rw rw rw rw rw rw rw rw rw rw w rw rw rw

The values to check are 'current_speed', 'init_speed' and 'using_dma' (all shown in red above). In the above example, hda is a hard disk running at pio mode 69 (100MB/s), and hdc is a CDROM drve running at pio mode 66 (33MB/s), both UDMA modes confirmed by the using_dma flag set to '1'.

Further Reading etc

While these pages have been written by Amiga Auckland based on our experiences, we have used material published by the author of the driver software to help install the SiI0680 card and some of that material has been included within these pages. We would like to thank Stéphane Guillard for the work he has done in developing these drivers, but as he is not part of Amiga Auckland he is not responsible for these pages.

Further reading may be found on Intuition Base or Stéphane Guillard's Development Notes . If there is something you don't understand, you can either contact us at Amiga Auckland or you can leave him a message via AmigaWorld - there is no email address for him at this time.