Re: hangs on Nforce2 & kernel 2.6.4
I've now got an old machine working with Linux as web- and mailserver,
and I'm now thinking of migrating my desktop PC to Linux as well. It's
an nforce-2 based machine, so when I read this:
On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 11:20:07 +0200, Dominique Dumont
<domi@komarr.grenoble.hp.com> wrote:
> Pim Bliek <bliekp@pingwings.nl> writes:
> > Anyone else experienced this problem? Or maybe someone knows how I can dig
> > deeper into this problem? I am a bit lost...
>
> Yes. It turned out that the default DMA setting was too high on my machine
> (Asus A7n8x deluxe nforce2).
I'm wondering: was the DMA setting too high for your hard disk? I.e. a
UDMA-3 hard disk running on UDMA-5, or is there a problem in the
kernel that it can't run UDMA-4/5 on NForce2-boards?
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Matthijs
vanaalten@hotmail.com
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