IDE drives and Intel P200 Pro

Thomas M. Browder (browder@eglin.af.mil)
Fri, 10 Jan 1997 06:37:30 -0600 (CST)

I have been getting strange and erratic effects with
my company's new Dell Dimension XPS Pro200n. I
suspect the I/O is unreliable somehow. Dell has
swapped out the motherboard and the drive once. They
are sending me another drive, but I still think the
problem may be in the model of motherboard:

Intel P6NATOMA

The drive with real problems is:

IBM: DAQA-33240 E182115V; 3.2GB

I am currently running Linux 2.0.25.
I have problems with floppy disks and tar products
not being able to be shared with my home machine
running same version of Linux, tar, and mtools.

At one time Dell was announcing a free upgrade to
a Tritom motherboard for this system. That sounded
strange to me and implied a problem with board design.
No one at Dell will admit to a problem.

I get randowm program problems which certainly may be
I/O--two different hard drives (same hard drive works
great in my home machine with Triton motherboard).

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.