OK - I accidentally allowed the install of 7.1 to enable DMA on a machine whose BIOS doesn't support it. Of course I'm getting crashes - luckily no data loss so far. I tried using hdparm to disable dma, bith on normal login and single user login, but each time the system freezes, and the next time that I start up, I get a kernel panic - I have to power cycle the machine. I also tried manipulating it using Webmin. I didn't think that it would work, and it didn't: another freeze. When the system does freeze normally (i.e. when I'm not trying to fix the DMA) it complains (can't exactly remember the message, but it leads to DMA being switched off by the system). What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance, Tom ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
