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In article <slrn5381sv.mr.davep@hagbard.demon.co.uk>, Dave Pearson
<davep@hagbard.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>I've just upgraded my Linux system this weekend, and one of the things
>I added was an IDE CDROM. Everything seems to be working fine except
>for one very annoying problem that I can't even begin to work out the
>cause of.
>
>I can read "small" files from the CD with no problems, but "large"
>files seem to cause a problem. I'm stil trying to work out the line
>between "small" and "large".
>
>
>
>Has anyone seen this kind of problem before, or do you know what the
>cause would be?
>
>I'm currently running Slackware 3.0 1.2.13 kernel.

I had a similar problem which was solved by adding the line:
  append = "hda=serialize"
to my /etc/lilo.conf file.
It tells you about this in the kernel source code directory for (e)ide
drivers. I believe that the problem does not exist with 2.0 kernels.

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