What types of problems are we talking about Jim? I haven�t had any problems at
all with my HDs, CDROM, and burner under 7.0 or 7.1. My HDs are UDMA66 and the
CDs are regular IDEs. Let me know, maybe I can help.
B
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> IDE devices seem to be a major problem with 7.1 I have been seeking help
> with a cdrom/burner for over a month...and it still doesn't work....mandrake
> support has been 0 help as well....I keep saying it's a bug...but seems that
> word is only associated with mickeysoft....but it's a bug they NEED to
> address....
>
> Jim
>
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
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