Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....
I've been using a maxtor udma/66 13.6GB drive on the hpt366 for over a year now with no problems whatsoever... even in udma/66 mode (also with several different BIOS revisions). I have not however, ever been able to get a cdrom to work on this controller either in windows 98/NT or in linux 2.2/2.4.
I don't think Maxtors should be blacklisted.
Alex
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Quoted 4 lines · David Woodhouse
It's a combination of chipset and drive that causes the problems. I've been using ata66 with the same controller on a different drive (FUJITSU MPE3136AT) for some time now, and it's been rock solid. It's only the IBM DTLA drive that's been a problem on this controller.
Maxtor has problems with hpt366 also.
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Highpoint made changes in their 1.26¹ BIOS to correctly support the IBM DTLA drives. If we can get access to information about what they had to change, we ought to be able to get it to work on those drives reliably.
Too bad Maxtor is still broken with hpt366...
Also, using CDROM on hpt366 is recipe for disaster...
-Dan
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