On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:29:30PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems j mckitrick wrote:
> >
> > A friend of a friend asked me to find out how ATA66 support was coming
> > along. Is it still necessary to disable DMA or PIO settings for it to work?
>
> ATA66 has been working for quite some time now. Beware that there are
> some disks that claim to be able to do ATA66 but actually can't.
> Beware of Maxtor and WD disks in this regard. I can recommend IBM
> drives, they work very well...
I can confirm, that for example the Tyan Titan Pro has chipsets
builtin that doesn't grok ATA66.
I met somebody who programmed BIOSes and such ...
So now I know, why even buying a separate ATA PCI controller didn't
work ... so in this case its not the harddisk ...
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