On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:29:36 -0000, "Ben Pope" wrote:
wrote:
Hi all,

In my new setup linux seems to give problems
with my HDD. It freezes with partitioning/formatting. The particular
HDD gives no problems with my old PC.

My old system: 230W noname PSU / Asus P2B-F (BX) / 1GHz Celeron
(Cu-mine) / 512MB PC100 / 3x Maxtor 80GB / GeForce2 / Promise UDMA133
/ onboard DMA33 / DVD-ROM / DVD-RW / FDD. DVD players at the onboard
controller, 2x win HDD at Promise IDE1, 1x linux HDD at Promise IDE2.

New system: 350W Aopen PSU / Asus A7N8X-X (nForce2) / Athlon 2500 /
512MB PC3200 / 3x Maxtor 80GB / GeForce2 / Promise UDMA133 / onboard
UDMA133 / DVD-ROM / DVD-RW / FDD.


Try Kernel 2.6 and/or using:

Sorry for the ignorence, I'm not a very experienced Linux user. If I understand correctly,
you advice me to get iso's which contain kernel 2.6 (like mandrake 10 beta. Any
others?).

acpi=off noapic
when booting the kernel.

Is disabling this function in the BIOS sufficient? If not, how exactly do I boot the kernel
using "acpi=off noapic"?

I had hard disk corruption issues with my nForce until I did that, now it's
perfect.

Thanks for the feedback Ben.
Regards,
Chris