Home
| Calendar
| Mail Lists
| List Archives
| Desktop SIG
| Hardware Hacking SIG
Wiki | Flickr | PicasaWeb | Video | Maps & Directions | Installfests | Keysignings Linux Cafe | Meeting Notes | Linux Links | Bling | About BLU |
Hello, I know there was rewrite of a lot drivers regarding hard drives due to a coruption problem. What if you move the cdrom to secondary slave and the last hard drive to secondary master. I hope thats a help, Anthony On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Brian Conway wrote: > I have a multitude of IDE and SCSI disks on one box of mine, and recent ran > into a problem after upgrading to the 2.2.11 kernel. One of my 3 IDE drives > will no longer initialize with DMA enabled, and this causes a performance > issue. This problem never showed up in the 2.2.5 or 2.2.10 releases. Here > are the partial contents of /var/log/dmesg on my rh6 box: > > <snip> > hda: Maxtor 72004 AP, ATA DISK drive > hdb: SAMSUNG WN321620A (2.16 GB), ATA DISK drive > hdc: CRD-8160B, ATAPI CDROM drive > hdd: WDC AC22500L, ATA DISK drive > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > hda: Maxtor 72004 AP, 1916MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=3893/16/63, DMA > hdb: SAMSUNG WN321620A (2.16 GB), 2060MB w/109kB Cache, CHS=4186/16/63, DMA > hdd: WDC AC22500L, 2441MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=4960/16/63, (U)DMA > hdc: ATAPI 16X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache > ... > Partition check: > sda: sda1 sda2 > sdb: sdb1 sdb2 > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 > hdb: [PTBL] [523/128/63] hdb1 hdb2 > hdd:hdd: timeout waiting for DMA > hdd: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } > hdd: DMA disabled > ide1: reset: success > hdd1 hdd2 > <snip> > > I have never run into this before. I'm curious where I can tell the hdd to > use dma and any other configuration options I've deemed necessary. I know > hdparm can do some interesting stuff, but I'm curious as to why this is only > showing up now (assuming it's not a big kernel bug). Ideas? > > Brian Conway > dogbert at clue4all.net > > Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. > -- Henry Spencer > > > > > - > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). > - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
BLU is a member of BostonUserGroups | |
We also thank MIT for the use of their facilities. |