On Friday 13 June 2003 10:11 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote:
> Sorry for butting in -- have you tried disabling DMA?
>
> hdparm -d0 /dev/hdX && updatedb ..
>
>
> HTH
>
> Damian
Damian, by all means butt away! <grin>
Seriously though, I've not tried disabling DMA. I've always used DMA with
previous versions of Mandrake on this same hardware with no problems.
Might give that a shot just to see what happens. The question arises though,
won't performance suffer with DMA off?
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