On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:16:20PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > Hi! I've bought a new HD and I'm having troubles with it. It's a Seagate > ST310232A (10 Gb). > > Boot: > > PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 > PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1020-0x1027, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA > ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1028-0x102f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio ^^^ Most of mother boards don't like to manage both UDMA & PIO MODES upon the same IDE interface, so the setting is usuallly downgraded to the lowest mode , which is the PIO one.
First, check the BIOS setup to see if you can manage differents modes on a same interface, by setting it on the *real* modes (not auto). (but even with that you have the risk to become stuck unpredictably) If you MB can't do that, You can avoid the errors you've got by a well done setup of the line "hdparm" in /etc/rc.boot/hwtools (with the hwtools parckage installed, of course :) See "man hdparm", and set the both of your HDz on IDE 1 to the PIO mode. Of course, it could be much more insteresting, in terms of rapidity, to put the CD-ROM drive and the PIO mode HD on the SAME interface. And to keep them in PIO mode. its up to you... JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs." (By Dennis Ritchie)