> 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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