I just installed SuSe 8.1 on my dual-celeron pc. The install was easy and everything seemed to work perfectly. Then I tried to access the disk with the homedirectories on, /dev/hdb4. Mounting works, accessing some files work. But after a while the system hang and doesn't respond at all. I've checked the logs (mostly /var/log/messages) but haven't found anything. The working drive, hda, is an old IBM 6.4GB disk and the non working drive is a Seagate Barracuda IV 60GB. I tried varius dma settings for hdb but the results are the same. Any hints, clues or solutions to my problem? -- Henrik Karlsson | www.henriks.org Studying Automation Engineering | ICQ: UIN 2785561 at Chalmers University of Technology | +46-707-99 50 31 "Coughlin's law - anything else is always something better."
Henrik Karlsson wrote:
The working drive, hda, is an old IBM 6.4GB disk and the non working drive is a Seagate Barracuda IV 60GB. I tried varius dma settings for hdb but the results are the same.
Any hints, clues or solutions to my problem?
I had a similar problem with a CDROM driver as master and a UDMA hard drive as slave. The combination worked fine under SuSE 7.3. When I installed 8.1 everything went pear shaped as soon as I started using the IDE drive. (The main system is running off a SCSI drive). I reckon that you need to set ide=nodma at boot time. That fixed it for me. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird and InterBase
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Paul Reeves wrote:
I had a similar problem with a CDROM driver as master and a UDMA hard drive as slave. The combination worked fine under SuSE 7.3. When I installed 8.1 everything went pear shaped as soon as I started using the IDE drive. (The main system is running off a SCSI drive). I reckon that you need to set ide=nodma at boot time. That fixed it for me.
I tried "ide=nodma" at boot time, it didn't help. I also tried changing the "force dma" in /etc/sysctl/hardware with no sucess. hdparm gives the following results: /dev/hda: using_dma = 0 (off) /dev/hdb: using_dma = 0 (off) /dev/hdc: using_dma = 0 (off) (hdc is my cdrw) I have read about the SuSE Installation support you get when you buy a boxed set. But as i understand it, they don't help you don't do a typical workstation installation. As I currently use atleast two harddrives, one for the system and one for home directories, I'm not doing a "typical workstation" installation. -- Henrik Karlsson | www.henriks.org Studying Automation Engineering | ICQ: UIN 2785561 at Chalmers University of Technology | +46-707-99 50 31 "Coughlin's law - anything else is always something better."
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