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Bill
I have a Maxtor ATA133 PCI card (with a Promise V2.20 B10 chip) which
I wanted to use to put more drives in a system. I tried the card in a
Shuttle MV42N mobo which has a VIA 8751 (P4M266) NB and VIA 8233 SB.
When doing this I vaguely remembered stories from a couple years ago
about intermittent data corruption on hard drives with Promise and VIA
chipset combos, but without checking Google I figured after all this
time this problem must've been solved by now. WRONG!
Under Windows 2000 I got random batches of byte errors, usually 12-28
bytes in a row, for every few GBs of data I copied. Occasionally the
system would suddenly reset when copying between HDs. I found that
having the Maxtor ATA133 card in my PCI slot but no drives plugged
into it still caused the data corruption, but when I removed the card
there were no more data corruption problems. This is all after
installing the latest driver from Maxtor's page for the AT133 card.
I and other family members have some older systems we might be able to
use this card on. I have listed those chipsets below hoping someone
knows a safe chipset to use this Maxtor ATA133 card on:
SIS 735
Intel 440BX
Intel 810
VIA VP2/97 <== very ancient
VIA VT8363 (Apollo KT133) NB, VIA VT82C686A SB
VIA VT82C693A Apollo Pro 133, VIA VT82C596B
I wanted to use to put more drives in a system. I tried the card in a
Shuttle MV42N mobo which has a VIA 8751 (P4M266) NB and VIA 8233 SB.
When doing this I vaguely remembered stories from a couple years ago
about intermittent data corruption on hard drives with Promise and VIA
chipset combos, but without checking Google I figured after all this
time this problem must've been solved by now. WRONG!
Under Windows 2000 I got random batches of byte errors, usually 12-28
bytes in a row, for every few GBs of data I copied. Occasionally the
system would suddenly reset when copying between HDs. I found that
having the Maxtor ATA133 card in my PCI slot but no drives plugged
into it still caused the data corruption, but when I removed the card
there were no more data corruption problems. This is all after
installing the latest driver from Maxtor's page for the AT133 card.
I and other family members have some older systems we might be able to
use this card on. I have listed those chipsets below hoping someone
knows a safe chipset to use this Maxtor ATA133 card on:
SIS 735
Intel 440BX
Intel 810
VIA VP2/97 <== very ancient
VIA VT8363 (Apollo KT133) NB, VIA VT82C686A SB
VIA VT82C693A Apollo Pro 133, VIA VT82C596B