Re: !!Warning!! UDMA and Fujitsu HD

Gadi Oxman (gadio@netvision.net.il)
Mon, 3 Aug 1998 20:49:11 +0400 (IDT)


On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Peter T. Breuer wrote:

> Uh .. you are braver than me. I didn't even try once I saw the lockup with
> -X34. At first I thought it was a compatibility problem with the seagate that
> I had on the same controller then. Nope.

The lockup probably occured since the chipset was configured to using
UDMA timing by the BIOS, yet issuing -X34 to the drive sets it to the
slower DMA mode 2 timing without re-programming the chipset first.

Gadi

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