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

[Oliver Feiler]

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On Monday 28 October 2002 23:20, you wrote:
> 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.

So this is just a "better be safe than sorry" thing? Obviously my data 
survived since I copied ~60 GB onto the drive running in UDMA33 mode. :)

What kind of problems would that be? A long time ago I had a 1.2 GB WD drive 
where forcing any DMA mode would result in massive data shredding.
Meaning: once it works in UDMA there is nothing to worry about?

Thanks for the quick answer.
Oliver

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