15 Jul
2002
15 Jul
'02
10:26 p.m.
On 15-Jul-2002 Syd Hancock wrote:
Well I've just tried an ATA100 on an ata33 board and it hung in the
BIOS. No
ways could I get it to boot.
Very odd .... I'm using a toshiba UDMA100 on DMA(33) machine just fine.
[snip] Digging around on manufacturers' web sites revealed the reason for this odd behaviour. The drive may be set to UDMA100 by default - in which case it is unlikely to work out of the box on DMA33. A DOS utility is used to configure it. Alternatively, a drive may be set to DMA33 at source and possibly not be running at optimum speed when used on a UDMA100 bus unless configured.
But how do I run the utility if the thing won't boot? I have to be able to do that first ;-(
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