> Ok. Done. That's what I'm reporting: The Maxtor, generally thought of
> as the better drive of the two, is still getting an occasional
> timeout -> switchback to PIO. (The machine is essentially diskless
> with a LARGE internal disk. Yeah, I'm weird... ;-)
>
> > This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
>
> Sure. There is now about 130km between the two. That good enough?
Yeah, but tell how you did it.........
> > Do you mean Triton II classic PIIX?
> Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
> IDE interface: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 IDE (rev 0).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32.
> I/O at 0xe800 [0xe801].
Have you ever set the PIIX tuning option?
Did it work?
Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy
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