Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!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: <1991Jun18.062009.13307@uwasa.fi> Date: 18 Jun 91 06:20:09 GMT References: <1991Jun14.124305.8021@uwasa.fi> Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland Lines: 22 In article tt@euler.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) writes: >In article <1991Jun14.124305.8021@uwasa.fi> hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama) writes: >>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. > >The problematic bios date was 4/30/89. Actually it appears it may >not be the size of the disk (or at least not only that); the speed >of the disk may be more important: it does look like it could be a >timing problem. Anyway, our experience was that machines with the >AMI bios had the problem, when it was changed (in one case to Phoenix, >in another to newer AMI) it went away. >-- >Tapani Tarvainen (tarvaine@jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet) Yes, that is what I wanted to know. Newer AMI is alright. Phew. -- == 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