Accessing Secondary FAT32 HD

09-22-2004	#1 (permalink)
Shiva88 Just Joined! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: St. Paul, MN Posts: 4	Accessing Secondary FAT32 HD Wow, what an excellent resource you guys are- I love how every other thread in the forum contains the word "Noob"... here's one more to add to the list I just set up my system to dual boot XP and Mandrake 10.0, I've got 2 80GB hd's, the Primary master has both OS's installed, and I've partioned the secondary HD to be a FAT32 "mule" drive, so that I can share MP3's, avi's, etc between XP and Linux. XP can read the secondary drive just fine, and play MP3 files with no problem, so I know that there's no corruption or other problems of that sort. Mandrake mounts the drive fine, and I can see all my files, but when I try to play them I get all sorts of skipping, scratching, etc- it's exactly as if the transfer rate isn't high enough to keep the stream going- very strange. At first I thought perhaps it was audio drivers, but the same files play perfectly once copied onto the primary drive. Any suggestions? Sorry for the long post! Many thanks, Shiva88 XP 2800+ A78NX Deluxe nforce2 ATI 9600PRO 1GB Ram

09-23-2004	#2 (permalink)
sarumont Content Team Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: /dev/urandom Posts: 3,682	Try this (as root): Code: hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb Assuming the FAT mule drive is hdb (Primary Slave). __________________ "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so." ~Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

09-23-2004	#3 (permalink)
Shiva88 Just Joined! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: St. Paul, MN Posts: 4	Thanks sarumont, i'll give that a shot just as soon as i get back into linux. What exactly, if i may ask, does that do?

09-23-2004	#4 (permalink)
Shiva88 Just Joined! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: St. Paul, MN Posts: 4	Fixed That seems to have done it! Thanks a million! Now, if you could just get my ATI hardware acceleration working.... LOL! I've read a dozen article on how to accomplish that, and I've just decided that for now i'm too much of a noob for that to happen. Thanks again!

09-23-2004	#5 (permalink)
Shiva88 Just Joined! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: St. Paul, MN Posts: 4	One more question... One more thing... when installing packages, Mandrake keeps prompting me to install to insert CD 4, but I've only got 3! I checked out several of the mandrake mirrors and none of them offer a disc 4 either... what gives?

09-23-2004

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Originally Posted by Shiva88

Thanks sarumont, i'll give that a shot just as soon as i get back into linux. What exactly, if i may ask, does that do?

My bad...forgot to explain. That turns DMA on for the drive. DMA (Direct Memory Access) allows the drive to read/write to the memory without the CPU's intevention, speeding up read/write times.

Getting ATI hardware accelleration working isn't *that* hard. Mine worked with little to no tinkering on my part.

I'm not sure about the disk4 think..>I'll look into it tomorrow. Time for sleep now.

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02-24-2005	#7 (permalink)
AlexK Linux Guru Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Earth Posts: 3,380	Hi Shiva88, Disk4 contains KDE 3.3 and some extra apps for KDE and Gnome . To fix this got to MCC, Software Management -> Media Manager and select cd4 and remove it. This will telll mandrake to show only the packages that you have on the 3 cds.