Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 07:32:51 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] BTW speaking of buying things - HDD
> >What actually happens when you run it in a clocked libby? Anyone used any >other 10 or 20 gig hard drive of a different brand in a bus clocked libby >with success? Ray, what actually happens is ... nada. Zip. Zilch. Nuttin'. It don't woik! The drive will sometimes appear to fdisk and format, but when you try and boot it will produce errors - mostly resulting in the 'insert disk' message. IBMs diagnostic tests report a cable fault - I can only conclude that the drive is very sensitive to the shape of the signal is more critical than on other makes and that the bus clocked HDC chip can't quite meet the drive's requirements. I'd guess edge rise/fall times but I haven't had a scope on it. I've also seen the same problem on an older IBM 4G drive. I don't think it's a speed thing per se - the same drive works fine on a 70 with the bus speed of 60MHz and on my desktop with the bus at 66MHz - which is why I suspect the HDC is running out of spec. Having said that, I've had no problems, clocked or otherwise, with toshiba 3 and 6 gig drives. Neil _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
