What devices do you have attached to each channel and at what speed(s)? Also do you have an NVIDIA or 3DFX video card on your system and/or a SBLIVE card?
There were some problems vis-�-vis the SBLive and the VIA chipset. Improper motherboard voltage/AGP jumpers also will cause system freezing during high DMA xfers with Nvidia, 3DFX and a few other video adaptors. Mis-matched hard drives will also cause this problem... I.E. if you have two drives, put them both on the first IDE channel, and make sure that they are from the same manufacturer and preferably fairly close in model/makes. (This is not a hard and fast rule though...) Try to avoid placing a third drive on the same IDE channel as a CD-ROM/DVD/CD-RW device. If you MUST do so, step the UDMA rate of the drive down to 33 in the bios and change the CD-ROM/DVD/CD-RW device to PIO instead of DMA... If the second IDE channel is UDMA 66 or 100 capable, are you using the high density IDE cables on both channels? Not the usual ones supplied with CD-ROM's, motherboards? -JMS -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Fedneg Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] System freezes when copying in second ide channel Hello: I've problems performing copies from first IDE channel to second one. After a few files copied the system freezes. I wonder if someone else has found similar problems because i cannot find any configuration error in the hardware. The box is an AMD Athlon 1.2 build with a Soltek mainboard (VIA Apollo KT266 series, South Bridge VT8233, North Bridge VT8366). I've enable DMA in both disks; and the filesystem is reiserfs. Any comment will be wellcome. Thank you. Fedneg
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