On Tuesday 09 January 2001 04:25 pm, Povl H. Pedersen wrote:
> Both my harddrives are IBM drives, and has been working under kernel
> 2.2.x and Windows without any trouble running UDMA, and a 66MHZ FSB
> overcloked to 83MHz (I have the idebus=41 as a bootparam to make sure
> nothing wrong).
> They are: IBM-DPTA-372050 and IBM-DTTA-351350.
> And the whole idea of UDMA-33 / UDMA-66 / UDMA-100 is, that you wonøt
> get errors as the protocol has error-correction/checksumming
> whatever, so that UDMA should be the safest bet.
NO, your problem is a _very poor_ overclock. Running HDD's on a PCI
bus that far out'a spec borders on ridiculous. You prob'ly wouldn't
even be able to run at all with anything but IBM, or Quantum HDD's.
Either set the FSB to 100 to get a 100/3 pci, or no higher than 75
(pci=75/2). If your board supports it, you might be able to do FSB 90
(pci=90/3). Your only alternative with a 41.5mhz PCI, is to set the
HDD's no higher than PIO4, and then you still risk data corruption/HDD
failure.
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Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
