Re: VIA IDE driver, v1.5 (final)

Anthony Barbachan (barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com)
Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:24:04 -0400

> NO, I have the death of one disk on my wall of shame because of VIA and
> mistimed. I will not have another dead disk added to a once spotless
> wall. This is foolish. You do not drive 60MPH through a school zone just
> because you do not see kids. There will allows be a lose soccer ball
> popping into the road followed by a child. As there will be systems that
> are U66 fully capable but the ribbon is not present.
>
> Yeah, this make no sense but neither does defaulting to U66.
>
> Andre Hedrick
> The Linux ATA/IDE guy
>

I figured that with 40 wires missing the chipset or drive wouldn't allow
UDMA-66 anyway or that the drive would immediately stop working thus
preventing data curruption. If this is not the case and the drive can get
messed up then I would agree with defaulting to UDMA-33. Although I still
think the appropiate speed should be retrievable from the BIOS if not the
chipset itself. Another option is to allow the user to configure the
default from make menuconfig.

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