Re: [TCLUG:18492] AMD vs. Intel

["Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>]

I don't know either - but the problem is VERY common.  Take a look at a nice
Yahoo search through USENET.  The only reason I have left this in the Linux
list is that last I checked - the owner of the code under Linux has not
fixed it either.  I have not check any kernel later than 2.3.99pre5 - I
needed to be using a 2.2 kernel for my more recent work.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: <Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:18492] AMD vs. Intel


> Well, I don't know what your problems are.  I've run both
> UDMA2, UDMA4, and PIO4 devices on the VIA chipsets
> under Windows 2000, and haven't had any problems with
> it detecting exactly what they are.
>
> Nick Reinking
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> veldy@veldy.net, on 06/05/2000 12:11:40 PM
> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org @ PMDF
> cc:
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:18492] AMD vs. Intel
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> > No, the KX133 and the Apollo Pro133A are _not_ motherboards -
> > they're they name of the north-south bridge combination.  The
> > north bridge is commonly called the same name as the chipset,
> > but it's really not.  The 686A south bridge does indeed handle
> > the ATA 33/66 communication, and it is fully supported under
> > Windows 2000.  The problems with PIO on the WD drives was a
> > WD problem, not a chipset problem, I believe.
>
> Well - the Win9x drivers from VIA handle the drive just fine - but the
> Win2000 drivers do not - so I think that would make it a VIA driver
problem.
> I should still be able to shut off UDMA66 ability and set the BIOS
> accordingly and get it recognized - but the drivers are even to dumb for
> that.  The implementation in FreeBSD 4.0 is the best I have seen.  Last I
> looked, the Linux drivers in 2.3.99pre[something or other] did not
properly
> detect the drive/chipset combination either.  I am not about to monkey
with
> hdparm to make it work.  Perhaps I might just go and buy another drive and
> put the problematic Western Digital in another box - or perhaps I will
just
> get a better motherboard - one where the company that makes it responds to
> enduser support questions.
>
> Tom Veldhouse
> veldy@veldy.net
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