Re: VIA IDE driver, v1.5 (final)

From: Brian Gerst (bgerst@quark.vpplus.com)
Date: Mon Jul 17 2000 - 14:17:05 EST


Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
>
> > I've seen several BIOSes that detect whether an 80-wire cable is plugged in
> > or not. And when the 80 wire cable is not plugged in, the IDE is slowed
> > down to UDMA-33. Perhaps these settings should be read from the BIOS if no
> > other way is known. I'd also say to default to UDMA-66 as most motherboard
> > that ship with support for it also provide an 80-wire cable.
>
> NO, I have the death of one disk on my wall of shame because of VIA and
> mistimed. I will not have another dead disk added to a once spotless
> wall. This is foolish. You do not drive 60MPH through a school zone just
> because you do not see kids. There will allows be a lose soccer ball
> popping into the road followed by a child. As there will be systems that
> are U66 fully capable but the ribbon is not present.
>
> Yeah, this make no sense but neither does defaulting to U66.
>
> Andre Hedrick
> The Linux ATA/IDE guy

So what you are saying is that running a disk in U66 mode without the
80-pin cable can physically damage the drive? Talk about a shoddy
interface design...

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Brian Gerst

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