В Пнд, 03.06.2002, в 18:02, Stéphane Teletchéa написал: > My config : > AMD Athlon XP on a MSI K7T-Pro 2 with 256 Mo DDR-SDRam, 30 Go Maxtor, > CD-Writer LG 24/10/40. > > If you use the bundled kernel, you need to turn off DMA by changing in > /etc/sysconfig/harddisks : USE_DMA=1 to Use_DMA=0 (and uncomment the line of > course). >
do you need to disable DMA on all drivers (as you have done) or is it enough to just disable it for CD-ROM? Copy harddisks to harddiskhdX (where hdX is your CD-ROM) and it will apply to one driver only. -andrej > The same problem appeared with cooker kernels. > I am not sure wether it is related to the kernel, or to the hardware itself, > but it may but a test case for post-install steps to check this parameter. > Otherwise, the system cannot access to the cdrom drive, and hangs everything. > > Thanks a lot for help everyone, i'm not sure this problem will persist for a > long time, but it may be useful to take it into account as my configuration > seems to be quite popular. > > Stef >
