remember this ?? http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2000-April/006127.html
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2000-April/006128.html and others, see also http://www.medicalmac.com/faq1E.html it appears tho apple has deleted the til#24985 ... --- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > the note on the wall street says it is a hardware > > problem on the motherboard. something to do with > udma, > > these were early versions of that aka ata-33. > maybe > > newer drives can switch down to older/slower, i > don't > > know. > > This is weird... first those old motherboards don't > support U/DMA at all well, could be linux is lying to me. but it says (u)dma in the startup messages. maybe it really is mdma2, i sure don't know what that is. maybe that term got lumped in with udma, which was on all the specs i could find. i don't know is it ultra-33 or something, is that between ata-3 and ata-4, maybe. so maybe not quite really udma. > (MDMA2 is the best you can get), and the media bay > and internal IDE are > separate... I wouldn't have been surprised of such > weird bugs in OHare > (the chipset used in the 3400) but Heathrow (used in > the wallstreet) > should be much more sane... Oh welll. > > > anyway i am trying to live with this after taking > > my book apart 3 times, returning drive for > exchange, > > reformatting, etc leaving it in now, it appears > ok. > > runs great by the way ! > > > > one other thing although appeared ata33 w/ > macos8.6, > > if using bootx or any mac stuffs, mac drivers > would > > seem to fail with anything less than 9.1. (don't > know > > about 10.x..) > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
