On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:16:06PM +0000, Kent Polk wrote:
> On 17 Oct 1999 12:55:00 -0500, Tom Javen wrote:
> >
> >I got the same problem here with 20G IBM , seems that my motherboard (asus
> >p5a) with acer chipset has some problems on ultra dma .
> 
> Same here with a Quantum Fireball except it appears to work fine once it
> downshifts:

Of course it does -- "DMA mode 2" doesn't have checksums, so there's no
way to know if your data's being corrupted or not!

The logical thing to do is probably to downshift to UDMA mode 1 first.

Thor