Lockup copying files

[ciaopaddy]

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)

[thinkliberty]

THere is a patch that you need to apply to the kernel to fix the lockups see:

http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/200...index.html#2451

 

 

Fixed my random lockup problems

[ciaopaddy]

Thanks for the reply, but please excuse my ignorance - I've been reading through the posts and googling about, but where can I get the patch from ? All I can see is source code. Or is that it ?

[thinkliberty]

Thanks for the reply, but please excuse my ignorance -  I've been reading through the posts and googling about, but where can I get the patch from ?  All I can see is source code.  Or is that it ?

If you are using the latest stable kernel (2.6.5) you can apply this patch to the kernel source, recompile and be all set.

 

use the nforce2_timer.patch

 

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/peo...hes/test/2.6.5/

 

There are some more patches that will comeout later, unless you want to cut and paste the code from the LKML and manually patch it...

 

it looks like it will be fixed in 2.6.6 or 2.6.7 so this will not be an issue.

 

You can also contact the company that made your mothboard and ask them for BIOS update that fixes this issue. NVidia has release a fix to them as well.

[ciaopaddy]

Thanks again. Will try that once I can nab that kernel from a magazine cd/dvd. Fraid I only have dial-up here and it's terminally slow. Fingers crossed.

[ciaopaddy]

Happy days ! I've spent several hours downloading kernel-2.6.6.1mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm and over 12 hours building it. After a lot of trouble getting my modem driver going again, I can now say that this kernel has totally fixed the problem - no more crashes or lockups - wooohooo !

 

Thanks again.