In what way could the hard drive not be up to spec? The original post said
the problem didn't exist with Mandrake 7.0.
Not trying to butt in, but I also have an IDE device which did work with
7.0 but does not with 7.1.
---Norvell Spearman
John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got a WD136BA hard disk on my hpt366 controller. If I try to use
> > DMA for disk access, my system freezes. This problem didn't exist with
> > Mandrake 7.0, but it appeared when I installed 7.1. I tried to upgrade
> > my bios. Nothing changed. After that, I compiled another kernel
> > (2.3.45). Same problem. I compiled 2.2.15 and 2.3.45 in 386 code
instead
> > of 586. Always the same problem.
> >
> Probably due to the hard drive not being up to spec.
> John
