Hello David Walluck,
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 00:28:52 -0400 (EDT) GMT your local time,
which was Friday, June 09, 2000, 11:28:52 AM (GMT+0700) my local time,
David Walluck wrote:
> 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 :)
Consider as the WD is under Waranty to get it exchanged for something
else as it clearly doesnt run as it should. As long as its one off
cases hitting them they may do it but obviously the signs are clear
that if their drives are out of spec and misbehaving they will sooner
or later go bust...
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