Re: Mobo dying hard with DMA support

From: James Sutherland (jas88@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Jun 04 2000 - 06:03:06 EST


On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Dan Hollis wrote:
>
> http://www.promise.com/Products/idecards/u66.htm
>
> Im using one on a BP6 in place of the broken onboard HPT366.

When you say "broken", what do you mean? When I use a generic IDE driver,
it's too slow, but works OK - even with DMA. When I use the HPT366 driver,
it's even slower, and enabling DMA fscks the CMOS RAM. This looks like a
driver problem from here.

James.

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