Thanks for writing back, Michael. Yes it complied cleanly, and I have a
short script that copies over the new kernal and runs lilo for me, so I
don't have to remember all the steps...:)
I have written Andre a number of times providing him with details about my
problem, I have also added some additional debug messages to help pin down
where the lockup is occurring, but no joy so far.
My guess is that the HTP366.c routines works for the ABIT BP6 board but
not for the ABIT BE6 board. All of the other people who have written
indicating some success with HTP366 have the BP6 board. I believe that
the BP6 board was the one Andre used when developing the code. One person
wrote saying the BP6 uses "NJ" bios, on the last boot I watched carefully
and my bios says it's "Award Modular 4.51PG" bios.
Best Regards,
Robert Laughlin
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Michael Trainor wrote:
> Interesting. I never had lockups during boot, only during heavy IDE load.
> Just a stupid question: you did make sure that the change was cleanly
> compiled in and installed and all? I assume you probably did, but I've
> missed steps before when not really watching what I was doing and sat
> scratching my head for a while trying to find a problem that didn't really
> exist (forget to run lilo or something stupid).
>
> I emailed Andre (the IDE maintainer) yesterday, and he indicated that my
> problem stemmed mostly (or entirely) from the Maxtor drives. Apparently the
> HPT has little tolerance for variation in the ATA66 spec and the Maxtor
> drives don't adhere too well and they clash. I guess Maxtor is unwilling to
> admit the problem with their firmware, so the problem continues.
>
> Mike
