On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 22:52, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
>
> Do you really reckon it's something to do with the drive, or the hdparms
> settings for that particular drive?
>
I would generally tend to think so. Test out the different settings -
also, make sure your IDE controller is operating at the spee
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 22:33, Technoslick wrote:
> Ricardo,
>
> Thanks for that 'interesting' tip on Seagate. Did you read this somewhere,
> or were told by 'word-of-mouth' that there was a problem between these
> drives and Linux? If the former, can you point to the source? I would like
> to learn
in today's boxes. But, if it's working for
you, that's great.
I really would like to know what you have found out. Thanks!
T :-)
- Original Message -
From: "Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday
Em Qua 13 Nov 2002 21:21, Stephen Kuhn escreveu:
Wow! this is quite interesting!
MY machine is almost the same as yours, exceptions are 1600XP and 256mb pc2100
DDR
It was the finest install I have ever made!
Just dropped in the mdk9 CD into the CD tray and watched the show!
It was a real
Regarding the BIOS settings, I think so- as far as I'm aware, at least
initially, the BIOS was untouched on both. As of yesterday, though, the BIOS
on the first machine has been upgraded to version 1004 of the firmware, with
no noticable change.
I'll try an absolute minimum install, and see where
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 09:07, Mike Norrish wrote:
> Can anyone help with this?
>
> CPU: AMD Athlon 1800XP
> Motherboard: ASUS A7N266-VM (Socket A).
> Sound: Realtek ALC650 (onboard)
> Video: nVidia GeForce 2 (onboard)
> Ethernet: RealTek 8100
> RAM: 512mb PC2100 DDR
> DD: Seagate Barricuda IV, 40
Hi all!
We've got two machines in our office, both with identical configurations (at
end of post), which are both giving us grief...
First of all, on one machine, Mandrake won't even finish booting after
installation. Here's what happens:
1. Bootup freezes on "Finding Module Dependencies"
This
