On Saturday 13 January 2001 16:04, you wrote:
> 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
> >
> > --
> > This email was routed through The Twilight Zone.
>
> 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
look at the last three articles on
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72last.php3
Civileme
