[plug] something fishy about this hard drive

[Anthony Jones]

No problems with SuSE 6.4 on the same drive over here. You might be
right about
the EIDE controller on the mainboard... I'm pretty sure I'm running an
Octek 
motherboard in that box.

Also to note, I'm running reiserfs on it .. perhaps it's a filesystem
issue ?

>         -----Original Message-----
>         From:   Leon Brooks [SMTP:leon at brooks.smileys.net]
>         Sent:   Thursday, 26 October 2000 21:56
>         To:     Perth Linux Users Group
>         Subject:        [plug] something fishy about this hard drive
> 
>         To save anyone else on this list from wasting hours: if you want to
> install
>         Linux on a Western Digital Caviar drive (in this case a 45GB),
> disable UDMA in
>         the *BIOS* else it (on Azza mainboards at least) misconfigures the
> drive and
>         renders it useless under Linux (gives continuous status timout
> (0xd0) - Busy
>         messages instead of results).
> 
>         --
>         Traverse: To ski across a slope at an angle; one of two quick and
>                   simple methods of reducing speed.
>         Tree:     The other method. -- from "The Skier's Dictionary"

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