Get an IBM, I just bought a 61.5 gig IBM 7200rpm drive, and it rocks,, was cheap too... will work with that chipset fine... although you won't see a speed increase until Mandrake 8.1 comes out to get around the motherboard chipset bug.... rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel Axtell Sent: Wednesday, 12 September 2001 6:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] IDE and Reiser FS question > > 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
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