On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Civileme wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Can someone help me here?
> >
> > VT 82C597 Apollo VP3
> >
> > hda: Maxtor 84000A6, ATA DISK drive
> > hdb: WDC WD181AA, ATA DISK drive
>
> if you reverse the order of these drives, you could destroy them. PLEASE see
>
> http://kt.linuxcare.com/kernel-traffic/kt20000214_54.epl (second item)
>
> before something happens.
>
> Put one with your CD or something, but get them off the same channel.
>
> and hda is faster because it is a Maxtor and can use real DMA, and it has a
> better timing setup and it is the MASTER--never expect the slave to be faster.
I know it looks stupid, but this is the only way I could get the drives to
work. It did not work on the CD-ROM cable, and it could not detect the WDC
as master. The WDC is UDMA so I would expect that to have been faster even
with (U)DMA disabled. WDC said that if the drive speeds differ greatly
that it may be impossible for the BIOS to detect the drive as master, so I
would need to use another setup, but as I said I can't get any other setup
to work! I think with DMA off it should work fine because they will be on
a level playing field if you will. If you can help farther, that would be
appreciated :)
