On Wednesday, 5 January 2000 at 10:02:53 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> The disk probably has problems with DMA mode (lots of older WD disks
>>> has that). You only get WDMA2 mode since you controller is an older
>>>
It seems Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote:
>
> > The disk probably has problems with DMA mode (lots of older WD disks
> > has that). You only get WDMA2 mode since you controller is an older
> > Intel PIIX that can't do UDMA...
>
> Hmm..This disk was bought in about
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> The disk probably has problems with DMA mode (lots of older WD disks
> has that). You only get WDMA2 mode since you controller is an older
> Intel PIIX that can't do UDMA...
Hmm..This disk was bought in about March 99..you're sure that's the
reason?
Kr
It seems Kris Kennaway wrote:
> One of my Western Digital Caviars doesn't work under the new ATA driver:
> upon trying to access the disk (via swapon or mount during boot) it gives
> the famous "lost contact with disk" message and falls back to PIO mode.
> Interestingly, my two older WDCs work fin
One of my Western Digital Caviars doesn't work under the new ATA driver:
upon trying to access the disk (via swapon or mount during boot) it gives
the famous "lost contact with disk" message and falls back to PIO mode.
Interestingly, my two older WDCs work fine - although I notice that ad1
and ad2
