Stupid question I have been meaning to ask on this for years now.. if
someone wanted to so thw work.. could't they just replace the chip.. would
that work??

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At 11:31 AM -0500 02/08/2006, Mikeal St. Ayre wrote:
>On Feb 8, 2006, at 11:19 AM, Macolyte wrote:
>
>Could it be the revision 1 mobo that i have in the machine?
>
>Yes. That bus is bunk. I have one, and the only way it runs is with 
>a pci ATA card. Also, firewire will kill drives and enclousures with 
>a rev 1.

Specifically, the rev 1 IDE controller on the motherboard has a 
problem with causing data corruptions if there is more than one drive 
connected.  And it has firewire problems - data corruption and early 
port burn-out.

The workaround in each case is to install a 3rd party PCI card.

- Dan.

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