IDE controller requires driver?

ux-3 wrote on 2024-07-05, 18:23:

IDE controller requires driver?

No not need i think

I've found that CF cards / adapters can be a bit flaky on certain motherboards depending on the UDMA or PIO settings.

I would start by disabling Ultra DMA on the socket 478 setup. After that, if you have the option to set different PIO modes, you can try that too.

Shponglefan wrote on 2024-07-05, 18:28:

I've found that CF cards / adapters can be a bit flaky on certain motherboards depending on the UDMA or PIO settings.

I would start by disabling Ultra DMA on the socket 478 setup. After that, if you have the option to set different PIO modes, you can try that too.

There is no UDMA or pio settings on bios

can you install with a normal HDD?

ux-3 wrote on 2024-07-05, 18:40:

can you install with a normal HDD?

Yea some of them working :]

Any suggestions?

At what point in the install does it hang? On reboot?

on first "copying files" screen

Are you using a 40 conductor cable or an 80 conductor cable? Is there another device on the cable?

douglar wrote on 2024-07-06, 19:46:

Are you using a 40 conductor cable or an 80 conductor cable? Is there another device on the cable?

Used both. No another device.

As mentioned first post 370 pin mobo works well but pentium 4's not

rain wrote on 2024-07-06, 20:03:

douglar wrote on 2024-07-06, 19:46:

Are you using a 40 conductor cable or an 80 conductor cable? Is there another device on the cable?

Used both. No another device.

As mentioned first post 370 pin mobo works well but pentium 4's not

So the odd thing here is that it works on the older system but not the newer system. It’s also odd that it works enough to start the install, but fails during io operations that are still using the BIOS.

Perhaps your P4 is pushing the CF to use a transfer mode that it is not comfortable with, even when in the BIOS.

Can you run speedsys on the pentium 4 and generate the report file at the end? It will likely have the ATA info for the device and list which modes the device supports as well as the date of the firmware. There are other tool like HWINFO that can also pull this info, but speedsys will also give us some thruput numbers that will be interesting. Maybe we can figure out what transfer modes the CF advertises and which one it is using.

Yeah it may work i wonder if any other simple fixes

I have that issue too with a couple of my CF cards. I would say it is some kind of incompatibility, either BIOS or hardware. Not much to do besides trying to adjust BIOS settings (if possible) or try different CF cards