maxtor drive issue

[Net Llama!]

What is that drive plugged into?  A legacy IDE controller, or a
fancy-pants UDMA133 controller?  I'd expect problems with fancy IDE
controllers, but not the legacy (33) ones.

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, dep wrote:
> need a workaround here.
>
> my baby sister in wisconsin just got a machine with the specific
> intent of installing linux; distro she chose was suse 8.0; it's her
> first linux install. the problem is that machine came with a maxtor
> ata-133 drive, a D740X. the install gets to "probing hard drives" and
> there it stops, probing the hard drive forever. the suse database
> refers to a problem with installing 7.3 to these drives, but nothing
> on 8.0. a post to the suse list gleaned the knowledge that a.) it
> cannot be installed on these drives; b.) that it installs on these
> drives just fine; c.) that it can be installed on these drives but is
> difficult and if udma is later enabled it won't boot. in short, all
> the possibilities, just about.
>
> anybody know anything about these drives and whether it's a
> suse-specific problem, whether there's a reliable workaround, or
> whether the drive needs to go back?
>

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