I have the Abit KT7A and have upgraded my BIO to KT73R dated 7/13/01 from the
Abit site in Taiwan. That seems to have fixed my problems. If I recall they
also had BIO upgrades for KT7 and KT7-RAID. You might want to give them a
try.
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Thank you.
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Gary A. Garibaldi
Linux-Mandrake 8.0
Registered Linux User: 188550
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Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.
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9:50am up 18:51, 1 user, load average: 1.05, 1.48, 1.81
On Monday 17 September 2001 08:27 am, you wrote:
> I've posted before about problems with a Abit KT7-RAID motherboard and a
> WD Caviar 200BB drive in the ATA100 controller. I'm getting errors like
> "hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {DriveReady Seek Complete Error }" and "hda"
> dma_intr: error=0x84 {DriveStatusError Bad CRC}"
>
> Civilme from Mandrake suggested the WD drives can't handle the throughput
> of the ATA100 interface. I've tried turning UDMA off in the BIOS, as well
> as setting the PIO mode to 2, and using a different IDE cable (these are
> the Ultra ATA/66 cables that came with this motherboard and another
> similar one). I've tried a Samsung 5400 rpm drive, and now an IBM
> Deskstar 7200 rpm drive, and I'm getting the same error messages. The
> motherboard uses the VIA Apollo KT133 (VT8363 and VT82C686A) and the High
> Point HPT370 chipsets.
>
> At this point I'm getting desperate. Should I get a BIOS update? (I
> haven't been able to find one on Abit's site). Are there BIOS settings
> that can fix the problem? Is it a Linux problem with these chips?
>
> I rand drakopt and get:
> "Achieved 18.82
> Best speed at 2 mult and
> lookahead 4 was 18.66
> for DMA setting 'UDMA2'"
>
> I really don't know how to interpret this, but since this machine is going
> to be a webserver, I can't affort data corruption.
>
> I'm pretty desperate and would appeciate any advice.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
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