Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > In addition, it seems that VT82C686B (Ultra/100) based MSI K7T Pro2-A board
> > isn't compatible with existing IDE driver. I bought it first but it didn't
> > worked properly, so I've replaced it with current VT82C686A based A7V.
> 
> How does it fail ?
> I'll have to look at the VT82C686B data sheet ...

With Quantum Fireball, it failed with infamous "lost interrupt" error and
downgraded UDMA mode from 2 to 1 during kernel pciide initialization. With
an Maxtor drive, it got even worse; it never displayed error messages, 
and whenever I tried to compile something I got number of "unknown 
opcode(?)" errors.

I have more question with my A7V: why does pciide driver set UDMA mode to
2 for my drive which is capable of UDMA mode 4? Connected to Promise 
Ultra/100 interface, it is always working in mode 4. Obviously that's not
the problem of a bad cable. 

Jun-Young

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