On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 12:50:15PM +0200, knitti wrote:
> On 6/23/06, Tobias Ulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Looks like this is an older box (no dmesg, so it's just a guess). I have
> >a board ('96) that doesn't do any dma, but accepts to be set to pio 4,
> >dma 2. This results in several crashes per day, corrupt data on ro
> >filesystems and so on. Changing wd to 0xffc (pio 4) does fix it.
>
> this doesn't neccessarily mean the controller or disk is buggy, it could
> just be a bad cable, which works, if not used at top speed (or, more
> correctly,
> frequency). I have seen this multiple times with almost any os (that
> supports
> udma)
>
> --knitti
>
>
In this case, no. It's documented in the BIOS manual of this specific
board.
Tobias
