--- Ed Durrant  wrote:
> 
> 
> Franklin wrote:
> 
> > I purchase a Maxtor 80 gig hard drive back in December.
> ..............
> 
> >
> > Is there something I can do, such as tweaking the dani driver to
> get
> > this drive working in os2? I have the K7TH-A motherboard with via
> 686
> > chipset, ATA-100 eide. Using the 80 wire cables with all drives set
> as
> > CS.
> >
> > Franklin
> >
> >
> 
> The very last word I think is your problem. CS (Cable Select) sounds
> good in
> theory,
> however unless all drives are of the same type (revision) from the
> same
> manufacturer
> my experience is it doesn't work.
> 
> Always set a device to master or slave and group your devices
> together based
> on their
> interface speed. ie all ATA100 devices on one channel (one as master,
> the
> other as
> slave) and your ATA-33 devices on the second EIDE controller channel.
> 
> Windows often lets you get away with questionable mixes however data
> corruption
> can occur. OS/2 usually (correctly IMHO) simply spits the dummy.

Actually, I have an update. Rebooted windows and looked at the file I
copied earlier, it reported 0 bytes. And windows could no longer work
the drive either.
  I was hoping that by moving the Maxtor drive (ATA-133) to eide 1 and
by itself might fix it, it did not. The next thought I have is to do as
you said, set it as standalone master, and if it doesn't work with the
80 wire cable, then try the 40. If not then I wonder if something would
be wrong with my controller. Else it has to be their drive. I should
have held out for a Seagate :-(
My 40 gig WD seems to work fine though with CS and cabled to my DVD/RW.

Franklin


	
		
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