Civileme wrote:
> If you search the archives for UDMA66 problems, you will find
> most complaints involve WD drives. There is a reason. WD drives
> have unusual timing requirements.
And I CHOSE a WD drive rather than Seagate or Maxstor!!
The interesting thing is I tried a Maxstor 30Gb in both systems and it
performed just as slow around 9Mb/s. But when I put the disk in an
i810/Celeron based system it went up to 27Mb/s.
Elsewhere in this list I noticed VIA versus i810/BX discussions, is that
really the problem the combination of drive and MB therefore chipset?
The other thing I noticed my 80way cable has some ways punched out and
is marked Master and Slave the i810 had no such modification or marking.
> THere is a program that sets WD drives for UDMA66 available for
> DL from WD, which might(tm) help.
>
I have tried that already, but what I am interested in is the next bit
> In the mean time, on kernel traffic, the discussion crops up from
> time to time that a possible solution is to restrict WD drives to
> PIO upon recognition. No conclusion has been reached, but the
> fact that such discussion is taking place should indicate
> something to everyone.
>
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