Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-09 Thread Alan Cox
About two days ago, I tested a machine with four IDE drives each on its own cable as the master. All four drives were: ad0: 29311MB Maxtor 53073U6 [59554/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA66 I used the motherboard controller to support two of the drives. It was a atapci0: Intel ICH ATA66

Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-09 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [2509 11:20], Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In summary, same disks, three different controllers, problems only occur with the Highpoint controller. (I believe the Abit BP6 uses the Highpoint controller.) It does. It might be worthwhile to note that there are updates of the BP6

Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-09 Thread Ted Sikora
Greg Lehey wrote: On Monday, 8 May 2000 at 9:57:54 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not all non IBM disks has problems, that was not the message back then, at least not from me. What I said, and still says, is that Maxtor and WDC has a bad reputation on making drives that can't work

Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-09 Thread Ted Sikora
Alan Cox wrote: About two days ago, I tested a machine with four IDE drives each on its own cable as the master. All four drives were: ad0: 29311MB Maxtor 53073U6 [59554/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA66 I used the motherboard controller to support two of the drives. It was a

Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-09 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 9 May 2000 at 4:14:01 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: About two days ago, I tested a machine with four IDE drives each on its own cable as the master. All four drives were: ad0: 29311MB Maxtor 53073U6 [59554/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA66 I used the motherboard controller to

Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-08 Thread Arun Sharma
I have the following disk: ad4: 9787MB WDC AC310200R [19885/16/63] at ata2-master using UDMA33 and am experiencing hangs when I run it with UDMA66. I originally suspected this to be a cooling problem. But uncommenting the hlt instruction and reducing the temperature by 10 deg C, didn't help

Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-08 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] It seems Arun Sharma wrote: I have the following disk: ad4: 9787MB WDC AC310200R [19885/16/63] at ata2-master using UDMA33 and am experiencing hangs when I run it with UDMA66. That exact disk model cant do UDMA66 reliably, even

Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-08 Thread Ted Sikora
"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] It seems Arun Sharma wrote: I have the following disk: ad4: 9787MB WDC AC310200R [19885/16/63] at ata2-master using UDMA33 and am experiencing hangs when I run it with UDMA66. That exact disk model

Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-08 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 8 May 2000 at 9:57:54 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not all non IBM disks has problems, that was not the message back then, at least not from me. What I said, and still says, is that Maxtor and WDC has a bad reputation on making drives that can't work reliably with UDMA66,