On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 15:55, tarvid wrote: > On Friday 28 February 2003 05:04 pm, Azrael wrote: > > I just installed a brand new 120GB Maxtor hard drive. > > Formatted ext3 etc. > > When I boot up I get a message about DMA timeout on the new partition, > > and also when coping files to the new partition.. it feels as if it is > > rather sluggish (could be subconscious). > that's not good > > perhaps limiting the udma level will help > > what is the mobo? > > jim tarvid
mobo KT7A-raid with highpoint controller. Turns out the DMA works fine on the normal IDE .. and so I moved it there. But apparently there is an incompatability on the highpoint controller... easy solution.. don't use it there.. thanks for the answer though > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Azrael ("\''/").___..--'''"-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002
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