Happened to me twice also -in both windows and linux. Mine is also a via
chipset. I guess vis' udma is buggy...
intels dma seems to be way better.
Cheerio
Robin
Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
>
> Check bios and disable DMA for ide drives till you compile hedricks patch. If you
>keep
> using machine like this for long, it might result in serious corruption of file
> system. I was forced for a reinstall due to same problem. A very rar case but can
> happen at times...
>
> BTW, check whether your HDD is in LBA mode. It should be. Because the speeds you are
> quoting here are bit less for that model of Seagate..
>
> Bye
> Shridhar
>
> "Dr.K.S.Sangunni" wrote:
>
> > HI Shridhar
> > I am getting buffered disk reading 3.68 MB/sec and with cache 36.5 MB/sec.
> >
> > Thanks for the info. Now I Bogged down with another problem. When I boot
> > it hangs "hda: timeout ---DMA" . This happens now and then. Yet to fix
> > this.
>
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