IDE devices seem to be a major problem with 7.1 I have been seeking help
with a cdrom/burner for over a month...and it still doesn't work....mandrake
support has been 0 help as well....I keep saying it's a bug...but seems that
word is only associated with mickeysoft....but it's a bug they NEED to
address....
Jim
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> In what way could the hard drive not be up to spec? The original post
said
> the problem didn't exist with Mandrake 7.0.
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> Not trying to butt in, but I also have an IDE device which did work with
> 7.0 but does not with 7.1.
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> ---Norvell Spearman
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> John Aldrich wrote:
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> > On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > > Hi,
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> > > I've got a WD136BA hard disk on my hpt366 controller. If I try to use
> > > DMA for disk access, my system freezes. This problem didn't exist with
> > > Mandrake 7.0, but it appeared when I installed 7.1. I tried to upgrade
> > > my bios. Nothing changed. After that, I compiled another kernel
> > > (2.3.45). Same problem. I compiled 2.2.15 and 2.3.45 in 386 code
> instead
> > > of 586. Always the same problem.
> > >
> > Probably due to the hard drive not being up to spec.
> > John
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