--- "Bryan J. Smith" b.j.smith@ieee.org wrote:
BRUCE STANLEY bruce.stanley@prodigy.net wrote:
Hi Manuel! My IDE set up is as follows: IDE channel 0 --- IBM 40GB UDMA 100 7200 RPM drive 2MB
buffer
--- Segate 120GM UDMA 100 7000 RPM drive 8MBbuffer
IDE channel 1 --- TDK CD-ROM drive 24X --- TDK CD-RW drive 16x burn, 48x read Both controller cables are UDMA 100 compatible.
Ew, old-style PIO master/slave used for ATA DMA (not recommended).
Furthermore, you're using your newer devices as slaves, so they are stuck with the ATA support of their masters.
Lastly, you're using different vendors for the disks -- IBM (and WD drives, who OEM'd IBM drives at that time) had numerous issues with the ATA logic Intel ICH and ViA 82xx southbridges.
-- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail
Hi Bryan!
I should also mentions that the drives are installed in removabl drive bays so that I can swap then out with other drives without messing with the cables.
Thus, I can put in different master boot drives for different operating systems.
I have seen very little problems of the nature discribed with FC2, Mandrake 8.1, or Suse 8.2.
I have not seen any problems when using Windows 2000 pro.
Is this problem occuring more with newer versions of the Red Hat base kernals? It could still be a hardware problem of some sort with the system.
When I get home tonight I'll open up the box and re-seat the cables just to be sure that they are ok.