Posted by Roger on December 26, 19101 at 14:50:34:
In Reply to: Digital wdac2420 Caviar questions? posted by Shaul Karl on December 08, 19101 at 02:59:26:
On some motherboards you have to set the speed of the ide channel to match the speed of the hard drive. try setting the speed to UDMA 1
: Doesn't the Western Digital wdac2420 Caviar an IDE drive?
: Western Digital site says its interface is ATA. What exactly does that means?
: Although Western Digital wrote the disk geometry on it I can not have anything
: else beside an Acer Mate 433S to read the drive. Will Linux be able to access it
: with some of its old hd drivers? If so, will that works even if I move the hd to
: another machine and attach it to the mother board IDE connector?
: Do note that both the wdac2420 and the Acer Mate 433S are very old hardware:
: They are 420 MB disk and a 486 PC.