Because that series of drives are ATA-66 compatable and not compliant.
Come on you can't expect me to remember every drive variation based upon
name, model, firmware.....I get most but I forget about things until
someting triggers the issue.
These series is known to be quirky on super-socket-7 systems.
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Mike Perry wrote:
> Thus spake Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org):
> > > <DMA errors cut>
> > > Jun 12 12:20:45 homebase kernel: ide0: reset: success
> > >
> > > According to proc, my hda is a FUJITSU MPD3084AT.
> >
> > MPD are fake ATA-66 drives!
>
> Woah, woah woah.. It never said anything in the help about this, nor in the
> comments in drivers/ide/alim15x3.c. Is there risk of data corruption here?
> If so and this is known, why isn't there a warning/detection like the WDC one?
No just deadlocks......this is a hell of alot better than FSC.
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> Mike Perry
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