On Wed, 02 Jun 1999, you wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Konstantin Boldyshev wrote:
>
> > I have two IDE hard drives - hda(WD 13GB) and hdb(WD 2GB), and also a CD as
> > hdd.
>
> Are you using an extremely broken IDE controller or something? The
> messages would seem to indicate the disk (or controller) can't handle
> being turned to 32-bit IO mode with DMA transfers.
>
Uhm - a bit cavalier! My system CAN'T handle PIO mode 4 fer instance
but can deal with 32 bit DMA. The drive can, and the cable is okay - both
imported from a UDMA 33 capable system. My particular mother board doesn't
seem to support UDMA 33 though.
So even MODERN systems -only a few months old still may not be
able to handle full 32bit DMA or UDMA33. Both are dangerous
assumptions, and maybe should be left to someone trying to tweak
their system.
Steve
> Yes - but I can't.
>
> LLaP
> bero
