I'm currently trying to help a friend install Linux onto his
system. However, we are running into some massive problems. Whenever it
gets to the point where it is checking the disk for errors, or formatting
the disk (basically any large amount of disk access), the system will lock
up completely. One of his drives is a UDMA with on-motherboard support
for this (there are a total of 3 hard drives and 1 CD-ROM on the IDE), the
drive is a Maxtor 6 GB (I don't recall the model number).
We tried a number of different distributions (Debian 2.1, Redhat 6.1,
Mandrake), but all do the same thing. Does anyone have any ideas as to
what could be up (I checked the UDMA HOWTO, which didn't help, and also
tried playing with drive settings (LBA vs. Large) also to no avail). Any
help is appreciated....
marc
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