On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 5:27 pm, Azrael wrote: > On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 15:55, tarvid wrote: > > On Friday 28 February 2003 05:04 pm, Azrael wrote: > > > I just installed a brand new 120GB Maxtor hard drive. > > > Formatted ext3 etc. > > > When I boot up I get a message about DMA timeout on the new partition, > > > and also when coping files to the new partition.. it feels as if it is > > > rather sluggish (could be subconscious). > > > > that's not good > > > > perhaps limiting the udma level will help > > > > what is the mobo? > > > > jim tarvid > > mobo KT7A-raid with highpoint controller. > Turns out the DMA works fine on the normal IDE .. and so I moved it > there. But apparently there is an incompatability on the highpoint > controller... easy solution.. don't use it there.. > thanks for the answer though > Azreal I don't know if this is relevant, but I had a Soyo board with a Highpoint controller. There was a fault in the bios, and a patch was made available. I think you should google for Highpoint and see if there is a bios patch for your board. It cured my problems, anyway.
Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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