Hi Manuel,

On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 07:14:37PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 05:53:32PM +0100, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> > Hiya All,
> > 
> > on my PWS 500au i'm having the following problem and i just can't seem to 
> > find what is causing this ... I added a 40 Gb harddisc as master on pciide0 
> > and it got detected as :

Oh its a 40 Gb ATA100 disc.... does this ring a bell? maybe a newer 
accessing method?

> > wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <\^P\M^?\^P?>
> > wd0: drive supports 254-sector PIO transfers, chs addressing
> > wd0: 16383 PB, 4096 cyl, 4159 head, 21569 sec, 512 bytes/sect x -1933578240 
> > sectors
> > wd0: 32-bit data port

never had a different output even with i put it in the other pciide... see 
below....

> I think there is a problem on the bus, and some lines a pulled up, so that
> some bits always appears a '1' in the data register.
> The "254-sector PIO transfers" doesn't looks good either; it's usually
> 16 or 32.
> Check your harware, especially the cable and connectors.

I did thouroughly ... changed cables, pressed on connectors, changed IDE 
controllers but no luck :( ... still the same errors and they keep on 
giving the same params ... everytime the same...

So ... i am out of clues now ....

Cheers and thanks for your suggestion :)
Reinoud