Mail Archives: opendos/2001/02/16/02:31:41
I've never seen the chs Pins. Do you mean Cable select? (not sure about
this, cable select automatically select master or slave. So it can't be the
one you're talking about. Or yes?)
Well, before i had this system, i have had 2 cdreaders which gave me
problems under windows and dos. It was an Oti9xx (labeled Tae-IL-media or
similar...) 10x and a samsung 24x max. I guess that the 10x drive made a
mess with my controller (ali aladdin5 [asus a5 atx] )and this prevented my
system to recognize correctly my second ide controller. Sometimes i couldn't
use my cdroms at all!
So i tryed with linux (i was very interested in that os at the time) and I
noticed that on the boot procedure it had to reset the drive (actually the
probing process stopped on that drive and lost about 30 sec to find a way to
communicate with it). I don't know if it is similar to Utz Zarwell problem,
but i
think that problems with 2 cdroms of different manifacture are very common.
Ehm... I do not belive in pc standards... >) In my humble opinion it is all
bullsh** I have tried many kind of disk interfaces and architectures: Esdi,
ide, eide, microchannel, pci, isa, Vesa local bus... There is always an
incompatibility problem with them. Mainly with other manifacturer products
(those strange "shouldn't be" bugs)... Anyone can give me an acceptable
reason? ;)
Another example. Agp is aknowdlege to be an universal standard. Well, last
year i decided to change my Ati rage pro 8mb with a newer Video card.
Because i had an Asus mainboard i wanted to buy a board from the same brand.
Asus 4400 (or similar) which mounted nvidia TNT2 MX. It had video IN/OUT so
it was perfect for my video editing needs. It was also cheap (70$ more or
less)but on the box was written (with a tiny 9 points character) "we
raccomend to not use this board with ali aladdin5 agp chipsets". What the
he#@!
There are only 3 MainBoard (and 3 video chipset designers...) brands chipset
that support AGP, and none of them products is fully compatible with the
standard! Plus, Asus sells hardware which is not compatible with its own
hardware (asus TNT2 MX and Asus A5)!!!
Should we talk about the i740 bug?
"This Hard Disk uses the zzz yyy standard, BUT we recommend to not use it
with yyy zzz products. So, for optimal performances we recommend to buy only
our hardware..."
White D.
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