Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Tue Jan 02 2001 - 14:44:57 EST


On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Hakan Lennestal wrote:
>
> > In message <12542.978456659@redhat.com>, David Woodhouse writes:
> > >
> > > The IBM DTLA drives aren't in the hpt366 bad_ata66_4 list still.
> >
> > I second this !
> > Until the hpt-problem is solved (if it ever will be)
> > we really need the IBM DTLA drives in the bad-list.
> > This configuration (IBM DTLA disks on hpt3* controller) can't be
> > that unusual ?
>
> So why are the IBM drives picked on? I thought this was a hpt366 problem,
> and possibly has only shown up with IBM drives so far.
>
> It sounds like the proper fix would be to not enable ata66 by default.
>

LT,

This is one of the evolution timing issues that both the drive guys and
the chipset guys point fingers, while both attempt to fix the problem in
their BIOS/Diskware.

Regards,

Andre Hedrick
CTO Timpanogas Research Group
EVP Linux Development, TRG
Linux ATA Development

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