Quick survey, multiple drives

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 23.11.2004 schrieb Paul Tomblin um 17:30:

> I boot in straight Knoppix, which boots a 2.4 kernel, and I can mount
> the partition and do the following command
> find /mnt/hdb4 -type f -print
> with no problems.  I boot from the same CD using the "knoppix26" boot
> argument to get a 2.6 kernel, mount the drive as before, and this time
> the find command gets about 30% of the way through the file listing
> and hangs.

Sounds like the 2.6 kernel does not work properly with your motherboard
chipset, especially the bridge for the IDE bus. May some values are
wrongly detected. Maybe drives settings, those you can change using
hdparm, are set wrong.

Alexander


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