Great. Well, I am down too! I don't see any mention of this in any of
the newsgroups (via Yahoo). I can not find a single reference. I don't
remember seeing such a thing stated either.
So, my question is, why NOT? If the old drivers can do it and the Linux
drivers can do it, I have to wonder why? This was a common interface to
say the least.
Tom Veldhouse
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 10:10:29AM -0600, Thomas Veldhouse wrote:
> > No overclocked bus. I do have the Pentium 166MMX overdrive processor on
> > the board though. It used to have a 100MHz Pentium in it. However, if
> > this is causing ATA some problem, it probably shouldn't. Like I said, the
> > old drivers in 3.4-STABLE have no problem with it and either does Linux.
> > Windows worked fine also (was my Wife's main PC until 3 months ago). If I
> > had to hazard a guess, I might look at the IDE contoller. There is a
> > known bug in CMD640(B) that the old drivers and the Linux drivers have a
> > [verbose] work around for. In the old wd drivers, you had to declare the
> > work around in the kernel config. Is there an option for the new ATA
> > drivers? If so, are they in the GENERIC kernel (for use with boot disks)?
> > I didn't see any mention of the workaround while booting the install disks
> > (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp).
>
> There's the problem. CMD controlers aren't supported. There's a
> discussion of it in the archives, unfortunatly, they are down.
>
> -- Brooks
>
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