Re: What does "hdX: CHECK for good STATUS" mean?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
28 Oct 2002 22:20:17 +0000

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On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 21:47, Oliver Feiler wrote:
> Btw, why is the drive not set to UDMA(33) on boot (like the other 80 GB
> Samsung drive)? I haven't found the drive in the ida-dma.c UDMA blacklists.
> Could this be some braindead BIOS thing? I had to flash a beta BIOS (Asus
> P5A-B) to get the board to boot with the 80 GB disks at all.

Because there are known problems with some combinations of WD drives and
Ali controllers.

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