Hi, On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:54:56AM +0100, Patrick Ohnewein wrote: > > I am new to this list and hope that my mail is not OFF TOPIC. After > looking around for 2 months now, to find a solution, I will try it here now. > > Now the scenario: I bought a new cool dell laptop: > INSPIRON 8100, 512MB RAM, NVIDEA GeForce2Go 32MB, 30GB Hitachi hard disk > and a DVD. I bought it with WinME preinstalled, because it wasn't > possible to get it with linux nor without an OS. I've had many reports of IDE data corruption on i8100 laptops. Does booting the kernel with the "ide=nodma" option improve things? Cheers, Stephen
