[wellylug] Installfest / hardware guru's

[JP]

 --- andrejwrote: > 

> It's a MSI 694D Pro based machine 
> 
> Dual PIII - 1GHz
> 512 MB of RAM (2 x 133)
> 2 20GB Seagate HDD's
> Matsushita DVD-RAM
> DVD-ROM
> TNT2 32MB

Seeing the specs, you can probably disregard most of
my last e-mail.  I would guess your system can do DMA.

Disabling DMA still might help in the short run, but
it's possible you have other problems, like a dying
disk or mobo.  Have you tried running something like
this?

<http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/smartsuite.html>

Cheers
Tony

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