Re: help -- UDMA install....
Just a few things you should check:
Master/slave settings, isa card interferance,
broken PCI cards, BIOS init, BIOS: NO PNP OS,
broken chipsets, etc
I hope this helps...
Regards,
Onno
At 01:26 PM 1/14/00 -0600, Marc D Chapman wrote:
>I'm currently trying to help a friend install Linux onto his
>system. However, we are running into some massive problems. Whenever it
>gets to the point where it is checking the disk for errors, or formatting
>the disk (basically any large amount of disk access), the system will lock
>up completely. One of his drives is a UDMA with on-motherboard support
>for this (there are a total of 3 hard drives and 1 CD-ROM on the IDE), the
>drive is a Maxtor 6 GB (I don't recall the model number).
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>We tried a number of different distributions (Debian 2.1, Redhat 6.1,
>Mandrake), but all do the same thing. Does anyone have any ideas as to
>what could be up (I checked the UDMA HOWTO, which didn't help, and also
>tried playing with drive settings (LBA vs. Large) also to no avail). Any
>help is appreciated....
>
>marc
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