Martin Samuelsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The reason I asked is that the ATA controller (or the BIOS?) on my > 440BX happily negotiates a nice, fast mode in the udma5 (IIRC) range > with the disk, but anything above udma2 works like crap. With the > built-in controller, that is.
I've had this machine for quite a few years now, with no operational issues, apart from it running a bit hot. It's cool when idle, but gets pretty toasty when loaded. It's rock solid stable though, without a single unprovoked kernel panic, halt or reboot. I specifically went out and bought two new 40GB disks and the Promise controller when I put it back into use as a multimedia machine, and they've been operating without issue for about a year now. I had an attack of the stupids when I first built it years ago, and managed to short one of the fan pins. I caught that quickly when things started smelling like smoke. There's a teeny scortch mark on the board, and the CPU fans haven't worked since, but other than that it's been in 24/7 operation most of the time since without a single crash that wasn't due to fiddling with the kernel (2.4.19 USB routinely kills it, for example; 2.4.18 is fine). When I used it as a full-time mail/news/etc server I had an external fan blowing into it, which kept it nice and cool. Brian. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
