Does the 20 Gb drive support DMA at all?  Some laptop drives just don't...
Buy a 2.5" USB case and be happy with that.



-----Original Message-----
From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, 21 April 2005 4:14 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: laptop disk DMA


> ...had a similar problem with an ICL laptop that was used as standard 
> at
> the time by Sun. You couldn't install any disk larger than 5GB. It just 
> wouldn't see it. Maybe you're a year or 2 up on that one, and it sees it 
> but won't let you play with it?

Everything's possible! I think the reasons with this Armada are more
nefarious though. SuSE 8.0 used to work just fine (sans DMA on the 20GB
though), but it was time to upgrade. Ooops. As the machine is really too
slow, another effort on the DMA was a good idea. In the process the whole
story went belly-up.

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