A1200 mainboard - which rev. to use?

[darksun9210]

I have a 1D4 mainboard, and after reading this thread, i knew there were timing errors with this board, but it got me thinking.

with a blizzard 030, solid and stable as a rock. nothing could break it. the same with a blizzard PPC. all fine on the western front.

but as soon as i try an IDE accelerator, i get problems and disk errors, partition trashing etc as soon as i try to use faster disk xfer speeds than PI/O mode 0.

IDE fix express seems to be the only one that works happily. i guess this is a symptom of the mainboard timing issues?

(obviously scsi works perfectly, but hey, i can't fit a scsi drive in the desktop case ;-) )

[darksun9210]

hehe
cos the scsi drive i have is a 4.3Gb Seagate Barracuda.

Full Height 3.5" drive (twice 'normal' 3.5" drive height) even if i could cram it into the A1200 case, the fact that the drive has discoloured ('blued') the metal case due to the temperature it has been run at - makes me think its happier in the fan cooled drive cage it is currently in  :lol: and my 1200 would thank me too !

plus whenever it gets the disk spinup signal, with the noise it makes, i'm reminded of the server rooms of old... *sigh*  :-D