If this is an ATA-66 drive, either clobber it with the OEM disable tool
or use one of my patches and include "piix_tuning" at compile time.
Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Mark Hahn wrote:
>
> > > does work.... only problem: BIOS says correctly that it is a UDMA disk
> > > but Linux doesn't.... using hdparm to turn on some features kills the
> > > kernel... My two quantums (ST8+SE6) do work as UDMA33 disks.
> >
> > are they udma66 disks? if so, most of them have to be specially
> > configured to work on udma33 systems, since they often default
> > to running too fast.
> That's my guess to.... maybe there is some kind of tool for it???
>
> >
> > > system: Abit-AX5 + p200mmx + Quantum ST8Gb SE6Gb + Teac Changer +...
> > > The IDE controlller onboard is from the intel TX chipset.
> >
> > you didn't mention whether you're using a modern version of Linux.
> > 2.3.18ac8 would be the right choice, but if you're a wimp, you could
> > try a recent 2.2.
> 2.2.9 or 10 afaik... I don't look at it too much ... I turn it on and it
> runs :) You prolly mean to include the new Unified IDE patches... hmmm
> maybe that'll help...
>
> >
> > > Or is it simply not supported enough by Linux???
> >
> > UDMA33 works perfectly under Linux.
> Sjups the Quantum's run on UDMA33 and that works great...
>
> >
> >
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