On Sun, 2001-12-16 at 22:46, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
>
> WOW is your system misconfigured!!!!
>
> Who set it up!!! It's exactly as I noted in my original message...
>
> They put one hard drive on each IDE channel and a CD/DVD on the same
> channel...
>
> Your drives are also mismatched, you are using a UDMA 66 and UDMA 33
> drive in the same machine... Not good (Civilme went into the reasons for
> this a while ago... )
>
> A BIG NO-NO!
>
> No wonder you are having problems!
>
> Your system:
>
> hda: ST320420A, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: 10X8X32, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hdc: SAMSUNG SV0844D, ATA DISK drive
> hdd: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-606F, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
>
> What it should be
>
> hda: ST320420A, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: SAMSUNG SV0844D, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: 10X8X32, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hdd: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-606F, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>
> You should also step BOTH drives down to UDMA 33 in the bios to avoid
> problems. You must always go by the lowest denominator on an IDE
> channel.
>
> It may be that the newer kernel is far more conservative with the IDE
> devices which is why it seems more stable.
>
> I would not trust this though and fix the problem and re-install
> Linux...
>
> -JMS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guillermo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 1:03 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [expert] System freezes when copying in second ide channel
>
>
> On Sun, 2001-12-16 at 06:17, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
> > What devices do you have attached to each channel and at what
> > speed(s)?
> >
> > Mis-matched hard drives will also cause this problem...
> >
> > I.E. if you have two drives, put them both on the first IDE channel,
> > and make sure that they are from the same manufacturer and preferably
> > fairly close in model/makes. (This is not a hard and fast rule
> > though...)
> >
> > Try to avoid placing a third drive on the same IDE channel as a
> > CD-ROM/DVD/CD-RW device.
> >
> > If you MUST do so, step the UDMA rate of the drive down to 33 in the
> > bios and change the CD-ROM/DVD/CD-RW device to PIO instead of DMA...
> >
> > If the second IDE channel is UDMA 66 or 100 capable, are you using the
>
> > high density IDE cables on both channels? Not the usual ones supplied
> > with CD-ROM's, motherboards?
> >
>
Thank you very much for your valuable comments Jose. I'm going to
reinstall all my system righ now.
Fedneg
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