Did you install Mandrake 7.2 with the 'hard drive optimizations'
flagged? It may be having issues with the power management or something.
Regards,
Derek
Biagio LUCINI wrote:
>
> Hello everyone! I hope that you can help me a problem I have
> with my laptop: since I bought it (one month ago), twice while the system
> was in use the harddisk started to spin withouth any reason and the kernel
> stopped writing in it, with the message "ide 0: busy" (or something
> similar). The only fix was to power off. Do you think it is an hardware or
> software problems? I am running Mandrake 7.2, with the default kernel (the
> ide control should be, but I cannot bet on it, a PIIX4 by intel). Any
> idea about possible ways for a better diagnosti than just waiting for the
> problem to happen again?
>
> Many thanks,
> Biagio
