Re: New HD, DMA, errors...
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:16:20PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> Hi! I've bought a new HD and I'm having troubles with it. It's a Seagate
> ST310232A (10 Gb).
>
> Boot:
>
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1020-0x1027, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1028-0x102f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
^^^
Most of mother boards don't like to manage both UDMA & PIO MODES upon the
same IDE interface, so the setting is usuallly downgraded to the lowest mode
, which is the PIO one.
First, check the BIOS setup to see if you can manage differents modes
on a same interface, by setting it on the *real* modes (not auto).
(but even with that you have the risk to become stuck unpredictably)
If you MB can't do that, You can avoid the errors you've got by a well
done setup of the line "hdparm" in /etc/rc.boot/hwtools (with the
hwtools parckage installed, of course :)
See "man hdparm", and set the both of your HDz on IDE 1 to the PIO mode.
Of course, it could be much more insteresting, in terms of rapidity,
to put the CD-ROM drive and the PIO mode HD on the SAME interface.
And to keep them in PIO mode.
its up to you...
JY
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