Re: LiveCD Problems

[Shawn <adonijah@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 10:36:03 -0700 (PDT), Matthew Dillon
<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> :1) dmesg | less shows that DF thinks I don't have an ATA-66 cable or
> :something of the like on my first IDE interface where my (only) hard
> :drive is connected, I do have an ATA-133 rated cable, and the hard drive
> :is an ATA-100 device.
> 
>     One thing to note here... there's a good chance that you don't
>     actually have an ATA-133 rated cable.  There are a ton of cables
>     being sold that look like they ought to be ATA-133 (e.g. they have
>     the double density wires), but in fact are not.  I had a similar
>     scratch-the-head situation and replacing the cable fixed the
>     problem.

Well, I don't believe this, but I pulled out an ole' crufty looking
double density wire IDE cable from my closet swapped out the one that
came with my motherboard (Gigabyte) and rebooted, and now suddenly
dfly does UDMA100. What I don't understand is why both the Linux
Kernel and Windows XP ran the HD with the other cable at UDMA100
without any problem. The only other thing I can think of is when I
swapped out the IDE cable I also moved around some power cables in the
case (less EMI maybe?).

Thanks anyway I guess.