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Dear all experts,
I'm a newbie to the linux world. I started with RedHat 9 (2.4.20.8). I can install it in my SATA harddisk without any problem. However, at the booting time, it seems to freeze about 1 minute before the red line below. I have also checked the past threads in this forum. I tried some solutions but failed. What I have done are:

1. edit the /etc/rc.sysinit by adding
#echo MAX_kb_per_request:15>/proc/ide/hde/settings
#/sbin/hdparm -X69 /dev/hde
#/sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/hde
#/sbin/hdparm -c1u1 /dev/hde
but i cannot boot up.
2. upgrade the kernel version to 2.4.22
but still come across with the same problem.

What i haven't done is just to renew the drive of siimage for SATA. Now I would like to ask for your advice about the 'freezing', thanks in advance!

Code:

NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:09.0

NFORCE2: chipset revision 162

NFORCE2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later

    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA

    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA

SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:0c.0

SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2

SiI3112 Serial ATA: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later

    ide2: MMIO-DMA at 0xf880d000-0xf880d007, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio

    ide3: MMIO-DMA at 0xf880d008-0xf880d00f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio

hda: JLMS XJ-HD166S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

hdb: LITE-ON LTR-52327S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

hde: ST380013AS, ATA DISK drive

hdg: no response (status = 0xfe)

ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14

ide2 at 0xf880d080-0xf880d087,0xf880d08a on irq 11

hde: host protected area => 1

hde: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63

ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide

Partition check:

 hde: hde1 hde2 < hde5 hde6 hde7 > hde3 hde4