Hmm... I have an Abit BP6 and I noticed recently that there was a beta "bios
fix" that solves problems with WD drives... I have no idea what it fixes,
but it sounds like it's in your direction. I recommend checking out
www.firingsquad.com --I noticed it as an aside from their BE6 review... It
might be located seperately somewhere on their site. Hope this helps!
-ks
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gary Tsai
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 12:21 PM
To: Chien-Yu Chen; siglinux
Subject: Re: large disk question.
when i was building my last computer, i ran into a udma66 problem also. if
you have an abit board (which i think you said you were getting) which has
the u66 controller built in, and you have a hard drive that can step down to
33, you can explicitly tell it to step down. you won't get any "noticeable"
performace increase by going to 66 (that i can tell anyway). when i ordered
my western digital 18G OEM drive, i found out that it cannot step down to
33. the retail WD drives can step down automatically, but to avoid any
potential problems, i went ahead and got the utility which steps it down
explicitly. also the 66 uses an 80 pin cable.
hope this helps a little
GT
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> anyway, I'll look for udma66
> thing then..
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