Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 21:53:07 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: hlew@sequence.Stanford.EDU (Howard Lew) Cc: dyson@freebsd.org, igor@cs.ibank.ru, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange error with WD family disk Message-ID: <199609020253.VAA00338@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960901142632.4000B-100000@vegemite.Stanford.EDU> from "Howard Lew" at Sep 1, 96 02:32:09 pm
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> > Hmm... I checked their web site and I guess you were right... very odd > problem... I wonder why it affects Asus motherboards and whether or not > other hard disks brands also have this problem. > It is a BIOS timing issue associated with the specific type of Award BIOS used on the MB. (I guess.) It exersizes a bug in the drive :-(. > > I have several Western Digital drives here that according to the program I > do not need to overlay it. I wonder if that means the drives are not > susceptible to that kind of problem or is it because do not overlay unless > an Asus MB is used. I wonder what the criteria is... > It is a drive firmware rev issue there. John
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