QUICK HISTORY:

I have been running a HD install on knoppix 3.3 for some time now and it works great. I have two SATA hard drives in the machine, and after I boot I have to run:

hdparm -X66 -d1 /dev/hdg

in order to get the hard drives to work. In the past when I ran knoppix 3.3 from disk it recognized them automatically.

PROBLEM:

My problem is knoppix 3.4 won't boot at all! If I boot into "linux26" it will freeze / hang / lockup on the line:

Probing SCSI... a100u2w.o

and if I boot with the "linux26 noscsi" option it writes "scanning for hard disk partitions and creating /etc/fstab" and then it starts repeating "disabling irq #18" over and over and over

I saw one post that said to disable plug n play BIOS, so i wnt into my BIOS and it doesnt have that option, but I did change it to not automatically do the plug n play IRQ thing automatically. Now it does Manual and still boots fine in 3.3

BUT i still can't get 3.4 to boot at all......... help! please! thank you