On Fri 12 Jan 2001 8:45, you wrote:
> I have a SMP P3 system on a P2B-D motherboard. I have ATA-66 drives and
> I've purchased a Promise controller card to utilize the drives. The
> problem is that the system locks up when I try and install 7.2. The
> lockup occurs after the drives are found, the I/O and IRQ are displayed
> then nothing....
>
> From doing a search online it appears that UDMA 66 and SMP (2.2.x)has
> been buggy, is this still the case? Obviously, I'd like to get UDMA 66
> working, has anyone tried UDMA 66 and SMP with 2.4? Would an
> appropriate solution be to install 7.2(using the IDE controller on the
> motherboard). Install 2.4, then edit the appropriate files(lilo.conf,
> fstab (did I miss anything else?)), to have Linux boot from /dev/hde.
> Any thoughts? Thanks in advance,
>
> Cecil
>
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Cecil,
I had this problem but last week resolved it. You need to press F1 when the
cd starts and then type - expert linux ide2=noautotune ide3=noautotune
You should now find that the system installs and shows you your disks etc.
The problem seems to be that Mandrake has optimised 7.2 for UDMA100 and this
doesn't like some UDMA66 disks.
After the installation I installed the 7.2 kernel 2.2.15 from Mandrake and I
now have UDMA66 disks working properly.
Let me know how you get on
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regards
Paul
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