Got the same board and am using 2 maxtor diamond plus40 30Gb drives no problems. Not
raided though, but they're fast as hell anyway.
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From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:14:15 +0200
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel Axtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [expert] IDE and Reiser FS question
> On Wednesday 12 September 2001 00:15, Daniel Axtell wrote:
> > > > Also, thanks to those who replied about the possible IDE disk problem
> > > > with the Abit KT7 motherboard, but I gather from the newsgroups that
> > > > the HighPoint HPT370 UDMA chip is a problem with Linux. The
> > > > motherboard/disk combination has worked for months; does anyone have
> > > > idea whether the "dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> > > > SeekCompleteError}" or "dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC
> > > > }" is something serious on a seemingly-stable system or can I ignore
> > > > it?
> > >
> > > You have a Western Digital Drive?
> > >
> > > If so, it is pretty normal. So is the eventual data corruption you will
> > > get above UDMA2 (33MHz). WDs simply do not have the hardware to cope
> > > with higher speeds and cannot do the required 57-byte CRCs. And if you
> > > don't believe me, email Andre Hedrick direct.
> >
> > It is a WD Caviar 200BB, which I bought after reading good reviews at some
> > hardware website (either Tomshardware or anandtech). Can anyone
> > recommend a good 7200 RPM that will work reliably with the ATA100 HPT370
> > chipset? Or am I going to have to scrap the motherboard as well?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dan
>
>
> The Mobo is fine. I don't believe you can use the HPT370 in its RAID mode in
> linux because none of the software RAIDs are supported (and the IDE RAIDs are
> all software). It is a matter like the winmodems--proprietary software, and
> Linux already has a software RAID superior to any of those proprietary
> implementations (will do RAID 0,1,4,5 and doesn't require identical disks).
>
> Some have claimed Quantum is good, others like Maxtor, many have report
> problems with one or the other (and these days the two are the SAME).
>
> No one has ever mentioned a problem to me about an IBM IDE drive.
>
> (I'm sure I'll hear some now :-)
>
> Sent FWIW,
>
> Civileme
>
>
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