Hi Civileme, It is a Seagate 8.6GB, UDMA 33. -----Original Message----- From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 July 2000 6:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] AMD Athlons and their motherboards. Oh, Aureal Vortexesas well. Alex Boag-Munroe wrote: > > Hi all, > > I was wondering, has anyone experienced this problem? > > I have a 1Ghz Athlon with a choice of two motherboards. > > One is an AOpen KX133 board. This all works fine, except when I install the > Aureal Vortex 2 driver onto my system, any attempt at playing a sound locks > the system solid. (I know this is not a Linux issue as it does this in > Windows also). > > The other is a Microstar K7M, with the AMD 750 chipset. After a fresh > install of MDK 7.1, it hangs when "Starting hard drive optimisations for > HDC). It starts the optimisations for hda just fine. > > ARGH! > > I do hope anyone can help me. > > Ta > > Alex What is /dev/hdc? Some hdds are already on a list to be skipped for DMA/UDMA and more need to be added, because their timing just isn't up to it. Civileme
