On a somewhat related note, I noticed in MD 6.0 udma support was default
but
in MD 6.1 you can recompile the kernel to make it so. This can be
checked by
running the hdparm utility as root to check the hard drive throughput.
Can
this be done in the initscripts as well. I don't know. But I never got
any
messages during boot up or shutdown because of it, just a slightly
slower
hard drive. I assume they did it because it caused some prolems with
some
older hard drives my making udma support default.
I have newer hardware so I use "auto" in bios and support udma in
kernel.
Larry
Simon Norris wrote:
>
> Hi John,
> I certainly don't disagree with you, as I've seen postings like this before,
> but I'm not good enough to offer a constructive software solution. What I
> was offering was a definite hardware config solution, so the guy wasn't
> compounding a kernel problem with a setup problem. I didn't want to see him
> following my path, and having to scale two walls to get to Linux.
>
> I bet you can guess that my technical background is hardware based more than
> software based, eh?
>
> TTFN
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 5:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux and bios\harddrive settings
>
> On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> > The first thing I can suggest is set it to LBA and leave it there, Linux
> > doesn't like Normal or large. Leave UDMA active, although if it is UDMA 66
> > (I have no idea what UDMA 2 is, I've only seen UDMA 33 and UDMA 66), you
> may
> > have to go back through the mailing list archives to get some more info,
> > there was a thread some time ago, with some people having very bizarre
> > results with it. If it's UDMA 33, leave it. My Maxtor is fine with it.
> >
> > I would check the partitioning info you're giving it, are you starting
> with
> > a completely blank drive, or a blank area of the drive? Are you sure it's
> > blank? I have seen a very strange occurence of Linux being installed onto
> a
> > DOS extended partition, it went on, but it wouldn't come back off. We had
> to
> > do a low level format to get rid of it, it even defeated Partition Magic!!
> >
> > Apart from that, the IDE controller and the master/slave option is
> entirely
> > up to you, primary master is a good choice. And finally, have oyu used the
> > hard drive before, do you know it is OK? Try a Windows install or
> something
> > similar, just to prove it.
> >
> Simon...this really sounds like the sort of problems that
> went on with a virgin install of Mandrake 6.0. I'm guessing
> he needs to update his "initscripts" and kernel.
> John
