Civileme wrote:

> Seagate is good for certain chipsets, but I have observed signal reflections on
> i810, VIA MVP3, and MVP4, Intel 430 TX, and ALi Aladdin V under Pentium code.  The
> problem is highly pronounced with TX chipsets, resulting in corrupt data that
> appears to write OK and is totally unreadable when the TX chipset is clocked at 75
> MHz (as for a Cyrix processor).  I did get "lost interrupt" errors on a very
> modern i810 with a Celeron 400 and a Barracuda 10.2G.  Windows, FreeBSD, and such
> loaded fine, but Stampede, Enoch and Mandrake could not even install.  (All were
> processor optimised)  Mandrake 486 could run this with only occasional reports of
> disk errors.
> 
> Civileme

I've had good luck so far with my Celeron 466 with i810 chipset and a Quantum
"Fireball" 10 gig. drive on Mandrake 7.
vern


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