Re: !!Warning!! UDMA and Fujitsu HD
Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 4 Aug 1998 00:20:43 +0100
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 10:03:36PM +0200, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> It looks like a touch (-X34 -d1) with hdparm that served to boost the
> performance of an older DMA disk on older boards is disastrous on a
> UDMA disk on newer boards. Some of the reports of UDMA unreliability
> may be mistaken ... people seeing errors may have to recheck that they
> aren't resetting the disk inappropriately using hdparm.
Please note I am using a VIA VP2/97-based motherboard (the FIC PA-2007),
and I _have_ to use -X34 otherwise UDMA locks up my machine within a few
days. -X34 or not makes no noticable difference to the results of
hdparm -t. No data corruption as far as I am aware.
-- Jamie
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