--- "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> IBM has been guilty many, many times of this (as well as
> with buggy BIOS Int13h services too), which affected
> Western Digital as well until the switch to Hitachi (and
> IBM's sell-off to the same).
>
> Intel's early ICH ATA for the i8xx chipsets, from the former
> PIIX ATA on the earlier i4xx chipsets also caused a lot of
> issues. But Intel worked them out rather quickly.
>
> ViA has always horded it's specs, and Linux ATA issues
> plagued many of its early 82xx ATA logic, up until about 8233
> or 8235.
>
> AMD has only designed 1 ATA logic, the original one in the
> 751, and it is still used in the 760 as well as the AMD8111.
>
> SiS used to be the same with its 551x ATA logic, although I
> have not tried its latest chipsets (since the Socket-462).
>
> > When I get home tonight I'll open up the box and re-seat
> > the cables just to be sure that they are ok.
>
> The exact make/model of your southbridge ATA would help --
> use "lspci -v". If it is ViA, it should be VT823x. Get the
> exact model for me and I can help you more.
>
> The exact output of "hdparm -i /dev/hda" and "hdparm -i
> /dev/hdb" would help as well.
>
>
>
> --
> Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail
Here are the model numbers of the mother board and chipsets:
Motherboard - KT7A-RAID using AMD 1.3Ghz Athlon Thunderbird
Chipsets - VIA Apollo KT133A with VT8363A and VT82C686A
