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

[Alex Deucher]

I've been using a maxtor udma/66 13.6GB drive on the hpt366 for over a
year now with no problems whatsoever... even in udma/66 mode (also with
several different BIOS revisions).  I have not however, ever been able
to get a cdrom to work on this controller either in windows 98/NT or in
linux 2.2/2.4.
I don't think Maxtors should be blacklisted.

Alex

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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