PC frezes when accessing harddisk

[mukanico]

hi all

i recently install yoper on my pc and one of the things i've to say about it is that it's absolutly awsome!!!!
On the other hand i've got a problem that i can't solve: when the system access the harddisk to read or write any files (specialy large ones) my computer totaly frezes up
before installing yoper i've tried mandrake, ubuntu and arklinux and this has never hapened....
can anyone please help me????

ps: i've got HP laptop running with a P4 2.66 GHz; 512Mb Ram; 40Gb Harddisk

thks

[michux]

i recently install yoper on my pc and one of the things i've to say about it is that it's absolutly awsome!!!!

Great decision. Congratulations!

On the other hand i've got a problem that i can't solve: when the system access the harddisk to read or write any files (specialy large ones) my computer totaly frezes up
thks

My shot would be DMA for disk not being activated.
Tell us what the:

 hdparm /dev/hda

says.

And if necessary, activate DMA with:

 hdparm -d1 /dev/hda

(assuming that your disk is HDA - the primary master)[/code]

[duffman108]

I had the same probelm with yoper and what I did was just gave up and threw away the CD.