Reply With QuoteGoing with the most obvious first, when you (re)compiled, did you disable something that should have been enabled? What distro are you using?
2 days ago i gutted my linux box from SCSI to IDE, when it was all SCSI the system was completely flawless, but ever since I got my new IDE harddrive (60 gig Western Digital 7200 RPM, ata100) and cd-rw (aopen 20x10x40) i get sudden system freezes, and by that I mean the system stops for about 10 seconds before i can regain control, and also when i ever i transfer a file from my cdrom drive to the harddrive, i get serious system instability. I remember reading about ata66-100 problems with linux, im wondering if that has anything to do with my problem, anyway, any suggestions would be great
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Going with the most obvious first, when you (re)compiled, did you disable something that should have been enabled? What distro are you using?
Ok I think your on to something, when i switched, i completely reinstalled both windows and linux, however the very first thing i did was recompile the default slackware 8.0 /2.4.5 kernel to kernel 2.4.17. however when you said to see if something was disabled I rebooted to my 2.4.5 default kernel (i saved it just in case) and i copies a 450meg file from my cdrom to my harddrive with out a flaw, so I think that i might have missed something in the kernel, so im going to go back and look, if you have any ideas let me know
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It sounds like you didn't compile dma support into your kernel. You should probably go back and recompile your kernel, unless you dont mind the 10 sec delays ;D
Yeah, I agree with evilestknight. *It's most likely something simple. *Remember Occams Razor- "The most obvious solution is most likely to be the right one" *Let us know how you make out. *;D
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