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Problems with 40GB IDE HD & ATA 100



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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