On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> 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.
>
Hmm...Ok. My bad. I didn't see that bit about it working in 7.0 but
not in 7.1. There have been reports (on this list and others) about
some brands of hard drives NOT being up to the UDMA 66 spec, and
causing problems, especially if there are other brands of hard drive
in the system / on the same drive chain.
Further, it's said that you have to have a special cable for DMA
transfers. I don't know this from personal experience, again, not
having the hardware to test.
John
