Warren Doney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Yeah, thats what causes the problem - got me too. You can remove the
> "ide autotune" lines during install by clicking the grub/lilo entry,
> choosing "modify" & deleting them from the "append" line. Where some
> chips work fine with "hdparm" they can't do autotune. N.B. you can also
> boot with your install CDROM & choose "update" instead of "install" to
> get to this dialog, & modify your lilo settings. Perhaps, in the "Help"
> section at the bottom of the screen, it might be an idea to say what
> "Hard Drive Optimisations" is actually setting  - something like: "This
> enables DMA, 32bit I/O, & appends bla bla bla to your lilo.conf, which,
> with some chipsets, will cause your machine to hang at boot"...

seems like next time we'll go back to hdparm :-(

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