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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