Hi Doug...
Actually, it is a proper UDMA66 cable (so agrees the Promise UDMA66
controller I was playing with a while back).
But ... I'm not looking for UDMA66 speeds, like I mentioned - the
motherboard only supports UDMA33 anyways.
With a tip from another reply, I found this on Maxtor's website: (although
my ASUS board is much newer than Oct 98, it's a start)
Overview: Some older Ultra DMA 33 motherboards with older BIOS' (revision
date 10/28/98 and older) have exhibited compatibility issues with Ultra
DMA/66/100 drives. The symptom manifests itself as a system hangs at boot,
and performance problems. On some motherboards the system does not properly
check the UDMA setting returned by the drive. The end result is that the
motherboard attempts to set itself up in an unsupported mode. These issues
arise because of a bug in the system's BIOS, NOT a problem with the Maxtor
hard drive. Some System's will also have performance problems due to the
controller chipset. To eliminate this problem, Maxtor has developed the
UDMAUPDT.EXE
... Jamie
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Subject: Re: Auto DMA vs. Manual DMA Settings... FBSD 3.51
It may be that:
a) your cable is damaged;
b) your system is too noisy;
c) your disks proclaim UDMA capability but can't actually deliver it.
I'd suggest upgrading to a proper DMA66 cable and see if that helps.
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