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Problems with 40GB IDE HD & ATA 100
- To: linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
- Subject: Problems with 40GB IDE HD & ATA 100
- From: Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz-home(at-nospam)cobol2java.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 05:21:40 +0000
- Delivered-To: linux.org.il-linux-il@linux.org.il
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
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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