Yeah, the chipsets also are all handled by their own code, MVP3 setup isn't the
same procedure as PIIX4 setup or ALI1541 setup.... I know, from my experience
that my specific revision of the 586B works fine. Some of it I have noticed is
also from cramming three or four drives onto the mobo controllers. I have had
DMA33 troubles with two hard drives sharing the same channel, stuff like that.
Some of that is chipset specific, but if you really need that many devices you
should really look into SCSI, I have one CDROM on my secondary and a hard drive
on my primary and it works well. If I wanted to add another hard drive or
something, I'd probably save up for a SCSI controller and a SCSI hard drive. You
start slaving devices on the IDE bus and it really degrades performance,
especially mixing UDMA and non-UDMA drives. Most manuals for them specifically
say not to do that.
--cokane
Warner Losh had the audacity to say:
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Coleman Kane writes:
> : The original point was that the troubles weren't necessarily
> : chipset-specific or mobo specific. There is probably some code that
> : needs to be dealt with.
>
> I got the impression that it was this particular 82C586B plus some
> marginal IDE drives. I've not seen other chipsets mentioned as often.
>
> Warner
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