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"John Perry" <JohnPerry@redoak.co.ukNOSPAM> wrote in message
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> A few months ago there was a report of Maxtor 40GB drives locking up,
> and I do not recall if/how the problem was solved.
>
> We have two of the 5400 40.9GB Maxtors on an ABIT BE-6-II MB UDMA66
> connector, and the problem is that when copying 50MB+ chunks of data
> through the network, the machine locks up (the keyboard does not operate
> and the drives are unavailable through the network).  This problem
> happens on both master and slave drives.
>
> I believe the Maxtors are the problem as when I had an IBM 37GB drive on
> the same cable, I never had the lock-ups.
>
> I'm running Win98SE with NO cylinder limit jumper.
>
> If anyone else has had this problem, and knows the solution to the
> lock-ups, I'd much appreciate the tip.
>
> posted to uk.computer.vendors (where problem was reported) and
> demon.tech.pc where the sages are.
>
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Try asking this question in the NG alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit if memory
serves me correctly abit M/Bs can have problems of this nature with Maxtor
HDDs at UDMA 66. Flashing the Bios I believe fixes it.

Scot