IDE controllers
Jan Isley
jan at bagend.uucp
Sun Nov 25 14:53:37 AEST 1990
In article <5857 at crash.cts.com> root at crash.cts.com (Bill Blue) writes:
>I too speak from experience. The problem with IDE drives and Xenix is
>not the drive or the controller ON the drive. It is with the adapter
>card that plugs into the motherboard and connects to the drive. Some
>of the adapter boards are very sensitive to the buss timings of the
>motherboard. They will do anything from refuse to boot Xenix
>altogether to occasional lockups and other strange behavior. It is
>the adapter, NOT the drive. Adapters that I have found work
>consistently in a wide variety of motherboards are by Priam and Conner.
I cannot remember having any problems using Conner boards, but I
religiously avoid noname, made in the Far East motherboards. The worst
problems I have had with Xenix and IDE drives were using motherboards
with *builtin* IDE controllers. In these cases, SCO could not be made
to recognize that there was a drive/controller in the system. Total blank.
These same combinations ran fine with vanilla 3.2 from AT&T.
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