Re: [OT] Howl of soul...

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Aug 24 2001 - 15:00:40 EST


> I *think* the i8xx N/Sbridge chipsets all work fine with the drives. Mine
> do. A quick search shows complaints with: BX, amd 751, kt 133a,
> chipsets.

BX and 810 are basically identical IDE. I dont think controller has anything
to do with drive hardware failures

> Does anyone know what this bug actually is, and whether there's a possible
> workaround without disabling udma entirely?

There have been multiple reports of problems with drive failures on recent
IBM drives with lots of OS's.

Alan
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