Just a few things you should check: Master/slave settings, isa card interferance, broken PCI cards, BIOS init, BIOS: NO PNP OS, broken chipsets, etc
I hope this helps... Regards, Onno At 01:26 PM 1/14/00 -0600, Marc D Chapman wrote: >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 > > >************************************************************ > >"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, > and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot > of courage -- to move in the opposite direction" > -Albert Einstien > >"If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society > we will soon have no art, no culture, no humour, no satire." > -Erica Jong > > ************************************************************ >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
