Re: Machine Check when booting dqa0?

On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Josh Tolbert wrote:

>       All my drive problems went away when I used a different IDE cable.

        *blinks*  I've tried at least a half-dozen cables.  I haven't used
a UDMA66 (80-conductor) cable because the CMD controller barely does
UDMA/33, and I  don't think that I need a cable-select cable.  Same issue.
I only get dqa0.  If you can find another cable to test a second device
with, I'd really like to know if it works or not.

>       The IDE performance on this PC164 leaves much to be desired. I'm
> going to have to toss a SCSI card in this thing and just go SCSI.

        Indeed.  I time it at 4.5MB/sec when forced to UDMA mode.  NFS
over a 100Mb network will be almost twice as fast.

        Incidentally, does anyone have a listing of third-party
aftermarket SCSI controllers that get along with SRM?  I've tried two
different Symbios controllers, and neither is compatible enough to be
functional.  (Neither gives you dka* for disks; one lists as a NCR
controller in show conf, the other is just a random PCI device number.)


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