it may by obvious, but are you using 80 pin cable that (probably)
came with your board?
(the connector have 40 pins, but the cable have 80 wires)
Alon.
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> While I was considering to restart my old tradition to recompile X at night
> (yeah, weird time, I know), I decided to finally use my new hard disk in the
> ATA 100 connector...
>
> I found out that Alan on the 2.4.3ac7 patch added a fix to the ATA 100
> problems. I also updated the latest BIOS Update from ASUS (to rev. 1007 - hi
> Alon from Aduva, update *hint*) which fixes some DMA clashing between the
> ATA 100 and some sound cards (specially SB Live if you have it on PCI slot 4
> or 5 - go figure why).
>
> So, I tried to make a partition. It did. Then I tried to start check out the
> cvs from XFree, and boy, those errors get started... dma time out...
>
> I emailed Alan Cox about it and 1 minute later I got his reply - I'm the
> first person to report it. Translation of Alan's language: re-check your
> hardware.
>
> OK, So I took the Whistler copy I got from MS (ok, I was considered then an
> OEM 6 years ago, and I'm still now? weird), and created a partition there and
> installed the Whistler there (and they call that a protection? 2 registry
> keys modifications and no product activation key any more). Lo and behold -
> exact same problem - you see the machine "freezes" for a few seconds and then
> go on. Of course - Whistler doesn't report any problems about it. They
> probably never heard of DMA time out...
>
> OK people - suggestions? do u think it's the Cable? the Hard drive? Anyone
> had those troubles before? I didn't test the drive on a normal ATA-33 IDE
> yet...
>
> Thanks and good morning ;)
>
> Hetz
>
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