From: Paul McAvoy <paulmcav@auctomation.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: help -- UDMA install....
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:34:38 -0800
A couple of things I would try also:
1) examine the motherboard to find out what type of UDMA support it has. I
have an Asus MB with UDMA support but it only does UDMA-33. I also have a
quantum 13gig UDMA-66 drive. I was having some problems with it, and went
to
the quantum website. I found there a util which somewhat described a
problem
I was having, and there was a utility to 'fix' the drive to UDMA-33. This
didn't actually relate to my problem but the idea is to check out info on
your
drives by the manufacturers and find out about what support the MB has.
2) I would also selectivly remove drives from the machine to see if another
drive is causing the problem. Same ide channel? Different ide channels?
Slaves / master conflict?
The drives should work on your MB. There might in fact be a problem with
the
maxtor drive.
As to UDMA support.. I am using the current stable kernel, and it does not
support my ide chipset. So, I can't use UDMA support for my drives. But
regardless, I can still function normally... It's just that disk/disk xfers
kind of suck.
Good luck.
- Paul
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 09:07:12AM +0100, Onno Ebbinge wrote:
> 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).
> >
> >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....
> >