On June 8, 2001 08:55 am, you wrote:
> Question, in the machines mentioned below did you use the 80wire connection
> cables on your hard drives or the old standard 40 wire cables? From what I
> have read on the net this can become an issue with CDROM drives and via
> chipsets if the 40wire cables are used.
<SNIP>
Excellent point Dennis. You are absolutely correct - standard IDE cables are
a problem when used w/ VIA based Socket A motherboards.
The systems I detailed earlier are my own personal equipment, and run high
speed IDE cables on all controllers.
My experience w/ SA/VIA boards goes beyond this though, as I own a small OEM
and ship approx. 30 to 40 SA/VIA systems per month. We first started
noticing problems late last summer - regardless of O/S - when running burners
on the secondary master w/ standard cables. As soon as we switched to high
speed IDE cables read/write errors disappeared.
So, without a question I would recommend only using high speed IDE cables on
SA/VIA based systems.
Regards,
SpeedMan
