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

[Dan Hollis]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, David Woodhouse wrote:
> It's a combination of chipset and drive that causes the problems. I've
> been using ata66 with the same controller on a different drive
> (FUJITSU MPE3136AT) for some time now, and it's been rock solid. It's only
> the IBM DTLA drive that's been a problem on this controller.

Maxtor has problems with hpt366 also.

> Highpoint made changes in their 1.26¹ BIOS to correctly support the IBM
> DTLA drives. If we can get access to information about what they had to
> change, we ought to be able to get it to work on those drives reliably.

Too bad Maxtor is still broken with hpt366...

Also, using CDROM on hpt366 is recipe for disaster...

-Dan