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- From: eka@stack.urc.tue.nl (E. Durmin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.os.linux.m68k
- Subject: PROBLEMS: IDE HD's with Linux
- Date: 02 Feb 96 16:47:05 +0100
- Organization: Internet XS Stuiverstraat
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- Hello,
-
- I'm an unexperienced Unix-on-an-Amiga user. Now I have Linux (0.9.13) working
- for 2 days. :)
-
- My computer system:
- - A1200
- - 4 Mb fast, 2 Mb chip
- - MTec1228 68030+68881
- - 1080 Mb IDE HD (Western Digital Caviar WDC 21something)
- - Kickstart 3.0
-
- While installing I found a few problems:
- - 1.2.13pl5 kernel My IDE HD does't work with this kernel.
- 1.2.13pl3 kernel It looks like that the HD hangs when I try to
- read/write a big file.
- - 0.9.12 kernel The HD seems to work, but it work VERY slooow.
- On bootup (Starting Linux) there is a timeout when
- probing the HD partitions (hda#).
-
- btw.: The 0.9.12 and 1.2.13pl5 kernels are compiled only for the Amiga.
-
- How can I solve this problem? Should I change something in HDToolBox? Should
- I use the 'real' kernel instead of the kernel which are compiled for the Amiga
- only?
-
- Now I use the 0.9.13 kernel. It works fine. Is there a newer kernel which
- will work with my system (which doesn't have the same problem as 1.2.13pl5?
-
- I have a few more questions...:
- - What is the difference between amiboot-2.2 and lilo-0.4a?
- - I just have 4 Mb fast and 2 Mb chip... this means that I can't
- use X-Windows...
- Why can't I use X when I have virtual memory? Is it because not evrything
- can be swapped to VM or is it just because it is tooo sloow?
-
- Thanks!
-
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