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
> T just tried making the same change on my system to see if it would help
> me. But the symptons stayed the same. If a drive is attached to IDE3 or
> IDE4 channels, the system locks up during bootup. One difference I am
> using the BE-6 motherboard.
>
> Best Regards,
> Robert Laughlin
>
> On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Michael Trainor wrote:
> > In any event, I ended up browsing through the code (experienced
programmer,
> > linux kernel newbie) and found that I could disable Ultra/66 by changing
> > #DEFINE HPT366_ALLOW_ATA66_4 1 to #DEFINE HPT366_ALLOW_ATA66_4 0
>
>
