Tom,
I scanned through the expert mailing list archive but did not find the
article in question. However, while scanning through alt.os.linux.mandrake,
I did come across a post that details the same problem that I am faced with
and also a workaround. Here is a link to the message on Deja :
http://x67.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=688389113&CONTEXT=973561895.1437270067&hitnum=1
In case the link above does not work, I will excerpt the article here :
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Well, I Mandrake finally got it's comuppance (or however the hell you spell
that).
I started the install via the regular manner after having copied hdparm to a
floppy from a Mandrake 7.1 system. After some trial and error trying to
determine the first point at which the /dev/hd* devices had been created, I
mounted the floppy, ran the hdparm -d 0 /dev/hd* and continued with the
graphical install. Everything worked!!! I bit my nails to the stub during
the file copy stage.
Mandrake: Please make the special via patch you've added to kernel 2.2.17
default to a NON-DMA TRANSFER MODE during the install. You may then give the
user the option to turn on 'hard drive optimisations which may corrupt data'
(or cause your computer to lockup!). Not everyone's DMA works flawlessly.
Thanks in advance!
-Pete
PS I sure hope Mandrake reads this!
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It is not clear to me how and when this user interrupted the installation
process and how did s/he restart it. Can you help me make some sense out of
this ?
Thanks,
-Mandeep
>From: Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] How to disable UDMA support during LM7.2 installation
>Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 07:27:41 -0600
>
>On Monday 06 November 2000 12:03 am, Mandeep Chadha wrote:
> > I bought this motherboard a while back and do not recall it's name
> > (it is not a brand name). It uses a VXPro chipset (PC82C437VX+).
> >
> > It's UDMA/33 support for hard disk access (on ide0 & ide1).
> >
> > -Mandeep
>
> I thought when you used 'experimental', it might be some new
>engineering sample motherboard, not yet released. But yours is an
>old board. IIRC, there's problems with early AMD, VIA, and some
>HDD's. I believe part of the solution was to underclock the FSB,
>eg, run it at 95mhz. Some time ago there was a poster on the expert
>mailing list named Civilme. He had thoroughly explored this VIA
>situation and posted solutions for various VIA/HDD configurations.
>Try searching the expert mailing list archive.
>--
>Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
>
> >
> > >From: Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >Subject: Re: [newbie] How to disable UDMA support during LM7.2
> > > installation Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:40:39 -0600
> > >
> > >On Sunday 05 November 2000 02:41 pm, Mandeep Chadha wrote:
> > > > My computer has an experimental VIA UDMA chipset
> > >
> > > what motherboard uses this 'x' chipset ?? and direct memory
> > >access for what?
> > >--
> > >Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston
> > > Bay
> > >
> > >and I have had
> > >
> > > > to disable UDMA support in the BIOS for things to work. When I
> > > > tried to install Mandrake 7.2, even though UDMA support was
> > > > disabled in the BIOS, the installer autoprobed and found the
> > > > UDMA capable chipset and enabled UDMA support. After that,
> > > > when file copying started, my machine froze.
> > > >
> > > > How do I go about disabling UDMA support during and after
> > > > LM7.2 installation.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > -Mandeep
>
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