On Tuesday, 9 May 2000 at 4:14:01 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> About two days ago, I tested a machine with four IDE drives
> each on its own cable as the master. All four drives were:
>
> ad0: 29311MB <Maxtor 53073U6> [59554/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA66
>
> I used the motherboard controller to support two of the drives. It was a
>
> atapci0: <Intel ICH ATA66 controller> port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31.1 on pci0
>
> and a Highpoint-based ATA66 controller for the other two drives. The
> Highpoint locked up with the "resetting devices" message as soon
> as the system was stressed. I replaced the Highpoint controller
> with a Promise ATA66 and didn't see any problems after that. (I've
> never seen any problems with the Maxtor's on the Intel ATA66 controller
> either.)
>
> In summary, same disks, three different controllers, problems only
> occur with the Highpoint controller. (I believe the Abit BP6 uses
> the Highpoint controller.)
I've had these symptoms too, but with a Western Digital drive. I'm
still trying to track them down. They don't happen when running on
ata0 or ata1. Søren suspects it to be a problem with the drive.
Greg
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