On 12-May-2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > well, this is my third post in the past two days, but I'm amazed at how > much grief this is giving me. I went home on my lunch hour today and > booted my system, apt-get install'ed hdparm and checked my settings, it > wasn't using DMA or anything, and at the bottom of the listing it said > something along the lines of "HDIO: Failed to get BUSSTATE" (sorry I can't > remember the exact mesage, but I'm at work right now and forgot to write > it down. so I used hdparm -c3 -d1 -X34 /dev/hda to Try get it working > properly. (This is a Duron 1GHz with a 30GB Fujitsu Drive which supports > UDMA 100. on an ECS Motherboard with the SiS Chipset) the command seemed > to work (no errors) but as soon as I tried to type another command the > entire system locked solid, this all happened with the default Kernel that > is installed during the woody installation. >
you may need to have a custom compiled kernel to deal with your motherboard settings. The hd will work fine for now, just not be as fast. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
