Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

[Andre Hedrick]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Hakan Lennestal wrote:
> 
> > In message <[e-mail]>, David Woodhouse writes:
> > > 
> > > The IBM DTLA drives aren't in the hpt366 bad_ata66_4 list still.
> > 
> > I second this ! 
> > Until the hpt-problem is solved (if it ever will be)
> > we really need the IBM DTLA drives in the bad-list.
> > This configuration (IBM DTLA disks on hpt3* controller) can't be
> > that unusual ?
> 
> So why are the IBM drives picked on? I thought this was a hpt366 problem,
> and possibly has only shown up with IBM drives so far.
> 
> It sounds like the proper fix would be to not enable ata66 by default.
> 

LT,

This is one of the evolution timing issues that both the drive guys and
the chipset guys point fingers, while both attempt to fix the problem in
their BIOS/Diskware.

Regards,

Andre Hedrick
CTO Timpanogas Research Group
EVP Linux Development, TRG
Linux ATA Development