On Monday 06 December 2004 10:23, Anders Norrbring wrote:
And no, that drive is an old ATA/33 drive. The problem doesn't exist on another motherboard/CPU combination, so I guess there's something wrong with the ATA controllers or BIOS on the first machine. Every other piece of hardware is the same, video, SCSI Smart Array, disks, floppy, CD/DVD and cables.
Anders, just a thought, you mentioned it being an old drive - is it an old machine too? I've had some mighty weird stuff happen with IDE drives on the Pentium-I class SiS motherboard chipsets.
As a matter of fact, Hans, it is.. It's an old Compaq Presario with Intel 440BX chipset and a Pentium-III 500MHz CPU, 512MB memory. The weird thing is that I used this same machine while beta testing 9.2 and never saw this problem. I don't know how SuSE compiles their betas, but a factor could be optimized code in the released version... Anyway, it's just a lab machine, I have others... :) Anders.