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Subject: Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness
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Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> >       Well that's not good, since I have almost convinced my boss to replace
> > the crappy IDE drives on our shiny new Intel N440BX mb's with scsi
> > drives since the controller is built in. :-/  Does this look like a
> > soluble problem, or is it just going to be a case of "don't do that?"
> > Anything I can do to help mail me and let me know.
> 
> You could try turning on DMA and discovering that these drives aren't
> _that_ shitty. 8)

	Heh... well I've already enabled flags 0xb0ff, which has improved things
somewhat, but our hardware vendor slipped in some IBM DeskStar drives on
us, and they've been no end of trouble. He _may_ live to regret his
"mistake." The good news is that the first machine rebuilt with the SCSI
drives and using ncr0 + fxp0 is not showing any signs of trouble. 

Crossing fingers,

Doug


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