On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> The first thing I can suggest is set it to LBA and leave it there, Linux
> doesn't like Normal or large. Leave UDMA active, although if it is UDMA 66
> (I have no idea what UDMA 2 is, I've only seen UDMA 33 and UDMA 66), you may
> have to go back through the mailing list archives to get some more info,
> there was a thread some time ago, with some people having very bizarre
> results with it. If it's UDMA 33, leave it. My Maxtor is fine with it.
>
> I would check the partitioning info you're giving it, are you starting with
> a completely blank drive, or a blank area of the drive? Are you sure it's
> blank? I have seen a very strange occurence of Linux being installed onto a
> DOS extended partition, it went on, but it wouldn't come back off. We had to
> do a low level format to get rid of it, it even defeated Partition Magic!!
>
> Apart from that, the IDE controller and the master/slave option is entirely
> up to you, primary master is a good choice. And finally, have oyu used the
> hard drive before, do you know it is OK? Try a Windows install or something
> similar, just to prove it.
>
Simon...this really sounds like the sort of problems that
went on with a virgin install of Mandrake 6.0. I'm guessing
he needs to update his "initscripts" and kernel.
John
