What is your take on the VP2/97 chipset and UDMA?
Can it be done or is that version which was a pre-release against the
ATA-3 standard and has never worked correctly?
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 09:21:30AM -0600, Andre M. Hedrick wrote:
> > Sheesh, before you all get wierd........what is the complaint against
> > IDE-VIA. There is a pile of new additions to the chipset to program/setup
> > the fifo size and assignments to both hwifs...........
>
> The FIFO setup thing hasn't made any noticable difference here. Speeds
> are the same. IDE DMA lockups occur with the same low frequency, unless
> I do hdparm -X34 which eliminates them for me.
>
> What I'd really like to know is, can you make my VP2/97 chipset talk
> UDMA? (Despite looking at FIC's web site, I still can't figure out if
> it should be able to! :-)
>
> -- Jamie
>
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
The IDE-FNG for Linux
The APC UPS Specialist for Linux
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/
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