On Wednesday 24 November 2004 00:01, Paul Tomblin wrote: > A quick show of hands here: > - Do you run Fedora Core 3 with multiple ATA-66 or ATA-100 drives? > - If so, how are they jumpered and cabled? > - Can you do large fetches and writes to the second drive without > getting DMA errors? > > I'm frustrated as hell by this - I had no problems with the 2.4 kernel > with my set-up, and now I can't reach my mp3 collection because it's > on my second drive and the 2.6 kernel seems unable to deal with it. The whole thread's arrive now:-) You haven't mentioned what hardware you have, but since the problem apparently happens in Knoppix too, I suggest you 1. Enroll at bugzilla.redhat.com if you haven't. 2. Create a bug report against the kernel. In the report descibe (to a blind man) your problem. Include your kernel messages from when you boot, the kernel messages when you're having the problem, describe commandline commands (preferably) to bring on the problem, and the ouput from this command: lspci -v -v which you will need to run as root. Conceivably someone will ask you to run further tests. You can probably run a 2.4 kernel, but you will also need modutils. The 2.6 replacement will not work. It might be worth testing the rescue disk to see whether you can reproduce the problem with that. Note that once you run a non-selinux kernel, there will be isses with reverting to selinux. They're not major (from my reading), but you should read up on them. -- Cheers John
