A couple of weeks back I was having problems with a 120Gb Maxtor D540X & Mandrake 8.2 (well, any flavour of Linux as it turned out) and an old Pentium 233MMX machine with an ALI 5229 IDE controller. System would hang during boot with the drive installed, even though it wasn't yet configured.
Change any one of - Linux to Win2000 - 120Gb to 80Gb - motherboard to Abit BP6 ... and it all worked fine. My last resort before defecting to Win2000 was to change the IDE controller by installing this cheapie ATA133 card: http://www.ivmm.com/eio/products_ap1680.html Just reporting back to say that the card is in & running and LM8.2 works fine again. Boy, that makes me a happy bunny! Must have been some strange interaction between the Linux IDE drivers & the controller. In the meantime, I've also upgraded my network & added a new network card (D-link DFE-538TX - Realtek 8139 based) which HardDrake hangs on trying to configure, but I'll wait for LM9.0 to come out & do a fresh install before I worry too much about that. Jon
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