Hi, I'm a newbie to Linux and ran Knoppix for a few days but now have Mandrake 10 CE installed. It's pretty class but for one big problem...
All my data from my XP days (hock, spit) is on my S-ATA drive and I want to copy it across to my Linux IDE drive before reconfiguring it as ext3 or whatever (see my harware config at the end)
But when attempting to copy the data, Mandrake locks up randomly every time after about 20 megs or so has been copied (it might get to 100+ etc if I'm lucky). The drive light stays on and the screen is there, but the mouse is locked, nothing works, and it stays like this til I hit the reset switch several times.
I did have problems installing Mandrake until I copped the 'noapic nolapic' workaround so I can't think what else to do.
Note that Knoppix didn't detect the s-ata at first until I managed to build the Promise drivers, but didn't have the problems I'm having with Mandrake.
I can't build these drivers on Mandrake because modversions.h is missing and I don't know how to get it, and doubt if that would solve the problem anyway since there's no problem with small numbers/sizes of files.
Any ideas much appreciated before I go mad ! Here's my hardware configuration. BTW - there's no LBA option to set in my bios either.
Athlon XP 2500+
Zenith 7NJS Ultra (Nvidia NForce2 Ultra 400) motherboard
512MB 3200 ram
Gainward GeForce FX5700 video card (NVidia)
Maxtor 40gig IDE hd (with Mandrake 10CE on it)
S-ATA Maxtor 160gig attached to the onboard Promise FastTrak 376 Controller (with XP & ntfs & vfat partions)