Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!tukki.jyu.fi!euler!tt From: tt@euler.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: IDE hard drive pauses... sometimes. Message-ID: Date: 14 Jun 91 12:21:23 GMT References: <1991Jun13.193634.24680@sarah.albany.edu> Sender: news@jyu.fi (News articles) Organization: University of Jyvaskyla Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: brk102@leah.albany.edu's message of 13 Jun 91 19: 36:34 GMT Originator: tt@euler.jyu.fi Nntp-Posting-Host: euler.jyu.fi In article <1991Jun13.193634.24680@sarah.albany.edu> brk102@leah.albany.edu (Brian King) writes: >I have an IDE hard drive, a Toshiba 100MB (can't remember the model >number), that seems to pause sometimes, for around 15 seconds, and >then continues. Does your machine have AMI bios? It seems that certain versions of AMI 386 bios have a bug that causes them to hang occasionally like that with big disks (I don't know the exact limit: it doesn't appear with 40MB drives, and does with 100MB ones). We've had this problem with several machines; after we complained enough they got as new bios eproms and the problem went away. -- Tapani Tarvainen (tarvaine@jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)