Hello David Walluck,
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:44:14 -0400 (EDT) GMT your local time,
which was Tuesday, June 06, 2000, 7:44:14 AM (GMT+0700) my local time,
David Walluck wrote:
> Brian Fleischman wrote:
>>
>> I do can do a -c1 just fine also. If I do a -d1 (dma)...locks
> up...harddrive
>> light on constantly, even with the -X66 or -X68. I have a WD 20.5
> ata/66 7200 rpm
>> drive. I wonder what's up with the dma stuff.
>>
>> -Brian
> Hi. Why are hard drive optimizations on per default??? I have to add
> "nohdparm" to the command-line. On my WDC 18G drive, it hangs. I'm
> having serious problems with DMA enabled on this drive anyway (VP3
> chipset). So I turned off "Use DMA by default" in the kernel. Still,
> hard drive optimizations apparently can't be enabled on WDC dricves.
> I've seen this problem reported many times and I'm experiencing serious
> problems myself.
let me ask something here which could be related.
I run the 15 gb WDC's and so does a friend.
Not for mandrake but for windows 98...
linux sits on another box with 2*8 gb drives.
However BOTH my friend and I have experienced odd behaviour of these
drives under 98 where a fat 32 split into 3 doesnt show the last
partitions in fdisk, it does with other tools and under 98 all is
there.
But I have the silly situation that of booting with a standard 98
floppy, I have 2 partitions visible....
I never had that on my 13.5 WDC or the Quantums...
I strongly suspect that there is something in these drives which
doesnt work 'standard'....
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