Now, the question is, can we trust a hard drive manufacturer support tech to know what
they're talking about, with evidence to the contrary? :)
Somewhat like the 6 days i spent with a Cisco 802 and an 804, trying to get a link up.
Set it to National ISDN-1, dial 9 before dialing outbound number. Connection comes
up, but receive light is on, almost solid. I figure I got the wrong switch type, so i
give AT&T a call. Bell tech comes out, finds out the line wasn't physically punched
down into the block properly.
AT&T tells me it's a Northern DMS-100, and don't dial 9. I set it up, can't get the
connection to come up. Invalid bear-caps. I put the 9 back in, AT&T gives me a call,
tells me to stop dialing 9.
Bell gets a call. Turns out, it IS a National ISDN-1, and you're supposed to dial 9.
Seems that if you don't dial 9, it goes through AT&T's VOICE system. For an ISDN
call. As you can tell, this doens't work. :P So after 6 days of learning more about
cisco than I really wanted to, I get the link up.
Moral of the story?
Never trust a manufacturer. :) That, and don't listen to your boss, when he keeps
saying my Cisco Config must be bad, or the router is DOA. Trust your instincts.
Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> -----Original Message-----An interesting addition:
> I've just got a reply from WD - they say my disk only supports PIO4 and not DMA...
> > I'm taking the case off the machine right now, i can guarantee you its not UDMA
>compatible, simply because this thing was made in early1997. :)
> >
> > Here we go:
> >
> > MDL WDAC21600-00H
> > P/N 99-004199-000
> > CCC F3 20 FEB 97
> > DCM: BHBBKLP
> >
> > I've got various of these hard drives in service, for the last 4 years. Many run
>in windows pc's, and DMA mode in osr2 and newer, works, and is noticeablely faster.
> >
> > Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> >
> > > Glad all this discussion helped at least one of us:-))
> > >
> > > As for me, as I already mentioned in my last posting - I don't know why BIOS
>makes the difference (as in your case) if ide.txt says it shouldn't?! Ok, chipset,
>perhaps, is fine. But what about the hard drive? You told you had WDC AC21600H. Can
>you PLEASE check waht CCC is marked on its label? PLEASE! I am trying to get an
>answer from WD on this, but not yet alas...
> > >
> > > And - COME ON, GUYS! - somebody MUST know the answer - how to spot the guilty
>one - kernel configuration / BIOS / chipset / disk???
> > >
> > > Guennadi
> > >
> > > > back in, started playing in the bios. Finally fixed it. I was getting > the
>same operation not permitted, that you
> > > > were,until i got that bios setting. But it's making me
> > > > wonder if it's something similar in your bios!
> > > > I know it wasn't the actual UDMA setting in the bios, i'm
> > > > wondering what it was though. I'll put a keyboard on it,
> > > > and poke around tonight or this weekend.
> >
> >
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