What is that drive plugged into? A legacy IDE controller, or a fancy-pants UDMA133 controller? I'd expect problems with fancy IDE controllers, but not the legacy (33) ones.
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, dep wrote: > need a workaround here. > > my baby sister in wisconsin just got a machine with the specific > intent of installing linux; distro she chose was suse 8.0; it's her > first linux install. the problem is that machine came with a maxtor > ata-133 drive, a D740X. the install gets to "probing hard drives" and > there it stops, probing the hard drive forever. the suse database > refers to a problem with installing 7.3 to these drives, but nothing > on 8.0. a post to the suse list gleaned the knowledge that a.) it > cannot be installed on these drives; b.) that it installs on these > drives just fine; c.) that it can be installed on these drives but is > difficult and if udma is later enabled it won't boot. in short, all > the possibilities, just about. > > anybody know anything about these drives and whether it's a > suse-specific problem, whether there's a reliable workaround, or > whether the drive needs to go back? > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
