Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!uwasa.fi!hv From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: IDE hard drive pauses... sometimes. Message-ID: <1991Jun14.124305.8021@uwasa.fi> Date: 14 Jun 91 12:43:05 GMT References: <1991Jun13.193634.24680@sarah.albany.edu> Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland Lines: 25 In article tt@euler.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) writes: >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) Perhaps you could give us some dates and version numbers out of these AMI bioses you are writing about. I have AMI bios and 135 Mb AT/IDE and I haven't noticed such problems. -- == Harri Valkama, University of Vaasa, Finland ============================ P.O. Box 700, 65101 VAASA, Finland (tel:+358 61 248426 fax:+358 61 248465) Anon ftp garbo.uwasa.fi (128.214.12.37) & nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) hv@uwasa.fi hv@finfiles.bitnet /s=hv/o=uwasa/prdm=inet/amdm=fumail/c=fi