Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 10 Feb 2001 10:11:08 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: [preview] VIA IDE 4.0 and AMD IDE 2.0 with automatic PCI clock detection |
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On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 04:42:52PM -0600, Philip Langdale wrote: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Vojtech, > > I've tried out your new via driver and it > appears to have solved the problem with > the mis-detected ls-120 drive, but the ata66 > drives are still being run at 33. > > More interestingly, the pci-clk calculations > seem to be returning badly off values. > > My motherboard is a kt133a+686b btk7a from abit. > > When I set the FSB to 133 with PCI=133/4=33 the > timing code returns 43mhz. > > when I set the FSB to 100 with PCI=100/3=33 then > it returns 42mhz. > > These are scarely different from the nominal values. > I didn't observe anything bad in the few minutes > I was running like this, but right now I've hacked > the driver back to a hardcoded 33. > > What should I do next?
Are you willing to do some experiments? I suppose the 686b is somewhat different than the other chips (I tested it on 686a and 586b).
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