Matthias Scheler writes:
> Perry E. Metzger said:
> > In general, the faster the drive, the more likely you are to have
> > trouble. More recent drives are faster.
> 
> My drives reach 5.6 and 4.2MB per second and I have no problem with the
> NCR driver (P90, ASUS TP54, ASUS SC 200). I suppose these problems
> are related to buggy hardware which causes problem under high PCI bus
> traffic.

The tendency I've seen is the faster the processor, the less likely
you are to have trouble, the faster the drive, the more likely you are
to have trouble. My P133 rarely has much trouble, but my 486 tends to
barf with identical drives...

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