Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2720 from 2003/2/24
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x56h34 wrote:
I guess the onboard IDE controller may not like all the drives available out there.
Even if that may be the way it looks to you, I think it's quite unlikely that it actually is that way. The IDE controller used in the Pegasos is widely tried and spread in the industry, and I have not heard about anyone other that has had any problems with their WD drives in their Pegs. Couldn't it be some partitioning/RDB issue with your drive, or even software thing or such?
Harddrives/IDE are pretty standard stuff AFAIK. The only problems with hard drives I have heard of with the Pegasos 2 is the one I am suffering from myself; the Pegasos2 G4 (not Peg1 G3, not Peg2 G3) seems to be too fast in hardware initialization for my Seagate (also heard about this for certain IBM drives) to spin up, so it won't be recognized on cold boot. I have to Power the system on, and then reset it after some seconds, and then the drive will have had the time to "get ready" for the "second" HW init, and everything will be OK (there is a workaround on this though).
But then I also see people with Seagates that does no longer suffers from this issue since they installed the latest firmware. That makes me wonder if these timing issues during startup could also depend on the combination of *other* devices on the IDE buses? Perhaps one might find a solution through experimenting with different configuration of IDE devices, like trying different configurations of master/slaves on one channel, and also moving devices between the channels?
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