On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote:
>
> Hmm, the WDC WD200BA disk does UDMA66 doesn't it ??
> The VIA 82C686 has support for this, but its very "generous" in setting
> it. Form the above I'd guess you dont have a 80lead cable on those
> disks ?? What does the BIOS say about the disk modes on boot ??
> A dmesg from a verbose boot would be nice... Also what mobo is this ?
> I guess the VIA has decided to run UDMA66 which wont work without
> the right cable...
>
This is a compaq special motherboard (5868 series). If I would have known
what I as getting, I wouldn't have bought the computer. The BIOS offers
nearly nothing in the way of options. I do know it uses a VIA chipset and
the AMD 751 chipset. I don't really have more specifics other than what
you see in the dmesg. I will get you a verbose dmesg tonight. I will also
see what BIOS settings are available. I do believe all of them are set to
auto for the IDE interfaces.
I do believe the drive is UDMA66 capable - but I never looked into it.
Perhaps I should get a different cable. Ironically, Linux drops that
drive to PIO.
> Because ATAPI DMA is disabled as default (the old driver didn't even have
> DMA support for ATAPI devices), see lint how to enable it.
>
> -Søren
>
Cool. Real CD performance.
Thanks,
Tom Veldhouse
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