OK, When the Blue High Point BIOS screen shows, Does your Drive show
" Mode 4" ? If not then your Hard Drive is not configured correctly.Western
Digital Drives work very well with the BP6 mainboard when set properly.
Western Digital provides a floppy disk to set the drives in UDMA66 mode.
My System
ABIT BP6 with HPT366 onboard & Driver 1.2
2xCelerons 466 (sometimes overclocked)
256MB SDRAM PC133
ATI AGP Rage 128 32 MB RAM
SB AWE 64 ISA
LinkSys PCI NIC running ADSL
Memorex 48X on IDE1
Western Digital 20.5 GB IDE3 (HDE) NT4.0
Western Digital 15.5 GB IDE3 (HDF) Mandrake 7.0
ttyl,
Don ....
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To answer your questions about my configuration:
>
> ABIT BP6 with HPT366 onboard
> 2xCel466 (not overclocked)
> 64MB SDRAM PC100
> ATI Mach64 (quite old)
> 3DFx Voodoo2
> Ethernet PCI 10/100 Realtek 8139
> SB PCI 128
> Modem ISA 56k
> CDROM Actima 50x on hda
> CDRW Creative 2224 on hdc
> WD136BA 7200rpm on hde
>
> Philippe
>
>
> Civileme wrote:
> > Actually the big change, AFAIK, is that UDMA66 is set up to work out of the
> > box.
> >
> > This would suggest that it is specific to the HPT366 Controller/WD setup.
> >
> > Go to http://forum.mandrakesoft.com and look under UDMA66 Solved. I think you
> > might yet be able to make it work, though it might not work at 66. I wasn't
> > joking yesterday. I am really buying ATA/100 equipment to see if it will work
> > at ATA/66.
> >
> > And even if it does work at 66, the missing error-checking feature would make
> > me distrust my own system. WD drives really do blow off the CRC.
> >
> > So what is your board--Is the HPT366 integral or a card?
> >
> > Civileme
