Civileme wrote:
>
> Having gone through the mill more than a few times, I have to ask this
> right away.
>
> What disk drives are you using? There are some which do have signal
> reflection errors on Pentium/Pentium II code and ATA/66.
Pentium III, 550 MHz. Both drives and the CDROM are ATA-33. The new
motherboard is ATA-66. New motherboards come with only one ATA-66
ribbon (80 conductor) cable. I have tried the following cable
combinations: primary 66, secondary 33; primary 66, secondary 66;
primary 33, secondary 33 - with no effect on the crash incidence.
hda is IBM-DHEA-36480 6197MB w.476kB cache, CHS=790/255/63 (LBA)
hdc is IBM-DJNA-3515209 14664MB, w/430kB cache, CHS=29795/16/63 (BIOS
says LBA???)
Substituting another ATA66 motherboard on the retailer's premesis led
to all problems disappearing.
Are these recent IBM drives reflection free? I tend to blame the
motherboard and am getting it replaced. I do know that the proper
mix of 33/66 m/b, 40/80 conductor cables, and 33/66 hd devices is
critical - get it wrong --> instability.
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Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
