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Re: Problems with 40GB IDE HD & ATA 100



On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:


Hetz, what is the make of this drive ?

--Ariel
> Hi Guys,
> 
> While I was considering to restart my old tradition to recompile X at night
> (yeah, weird time, I know), I decided to finally use my new hard disk in the
> ATA 100 connector...
> 
> I found out that Alan on the 2.4.3ac7 patch added a fix to the ATA 100
> problems. I also updated the latest BIOS Update from ASUS (to rev. 1007 - hi
> Alon from Aduva,update *hint*) which fixes some DMA clashing between the 
> ATA 100 and some sound cards (specially SB Live if you have it on PCI slot 4
> or 5 - go figure why).
> 
> So, I tried to make a partition. It did. Then I tried to start check out the
> cvs from XFree, and boy, those errors get started... dma time out...
> 
> I emailed Alan Cox about it and 1 minute later I got his reply - I'm the
> first person to report it. Translation of Alan's language: re-check your
> hardware.
> 
> OK, So I took the Whistler copy I got from MS (ok, I was considered then an
> OEM 6 years ago, and I'm still now? weird), and created a partition there and
> installed the Whistler there (and they call that a protection? 2 registry
> keys modifications and no product activation key any more). Lo and behold -
> exact same problem - you see the machine "freezes" for a few seconds and then
> go on. Of course - Whistler doesn't report any problems about it. They
> probably never heard of DMA time out...
> 
> OK people - suggestions? do u think it's the Cable? the Hard drive? Anyone
> had those troubles before? I didn't test the drive on a normal ATA-33 IDE
> yet...
> 
> Thanks and good morning ;)
> 
> Hetz
> 
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