Dan Hollis wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 May 2000, bug1 wrote:
> > Ive been fighting with the HPT366 controller for ages.
>
> After months of struggling with the HPT366[1], I gave up and installed a
> PDC20262. Now all my devices work perfectly. Even my cdrw and 40x cdrom
> can now run in udma mode.
>
I agree, i would definately recommend anyone go out and purchase a
promise card before trying hpt366. HPT366 has a latency of 120 (slow),
Promise 36 or something, dunno if this effects performance though.
I got one a few days ago, ironically, it was that that lead me to
working out one of the things i had been doing wrong with 2.2. and
hpt366.
Now i only have problems with dual hpt366 devices and 2.3.x
> The HPT366 is just broken, broken, broken.
>
> The $30 spent on PDC20262 controller was definitely worth it, to get rid
> of these stupid problems.
>
> -Dan
>
> [1] Aside from the random lockups even in PIO mode, the HPT366 was never
> able to run any cdroms in DMA mode. If DMA (even standard DMA, not
> even UDMA) was enabled on any cdrom, it would lock up instantly on any
> access to the cdrom device.
