This is a forwarded message
From: Pete Rushmere <pete@rushmere.org>
To: "Carsten Pache" <newsabo@gmx.info>
Date: Thursday, September 16, 2004, 6:10:11 PM
Subject: Error messages in dmesg (regarding new IDE controller, new IDE  drive)

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Hi Carsten,

         Can you forward this to the newsgroup aswell, I forgot the address!

         I had similar messages when I first fitted the Ultra100TX2 card. 
The messages you see are because the the card sees an Ultra/100 drive but 
the driver doesn't support that, so the Qube downgrades the DMA settings to 
make the drive work with the IDE driver. It doesn't seem to cause any 
problems at all, but like you, it annoyed me to start with. The easiest fix 
I found was to connect the drives to the card with a 40 pin cable, that way 
the card and drives can't negotioate a higher DMA setting than Ultra/33 and 
the errors disappear...

Kind Regards,
Pete.


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