Philippe Wautelet 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.
>
> Philippe
Please read
http://kt.linuxcare.com/kernel-traffic/kt20000214_54.epl (2nd item)
7.0 didn't really support UDMA/66 without a lot of tweaking. My guess is
that your WD drive cannot do UDMA66 even though it was advertised to do
such.
There are a few tweaks you can try--see "UDMA 66 solved" at
http://forum.mandrakesoft.com.
But WD drives ARE a hardware problem and likely will be for some time to
come. They do not do what they are supposed to in several categories, and
UDMA66 is showing it up grandly. Of course, the recompilation in 386 code
should(tm) have cleared most of the problems, but it is not guaranteed to
clear them all.
Civileme
