From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270409AbTGRW7r (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 18:59:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271904AbTGRW7r (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 18:59:47 -0400 Received: from mail.egps.com ([38.119.130.6]:58116 "EHLO egps.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270409AbTGRW7j (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 18:59:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 19:13:55 -0400 From: Nachman Yaakov Ziskind To: Alan Cox Cc: Svein Ove Aas , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: DVD-RAM crashing system Message-ID: <20030718191355.C25384@egps.egps.com> References: <20030718160643.A21755@egps.egps.com> <200307190008.32137.svein.ove@aas.no> <1058568886.19512.111.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1058568886.19512.111.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote (on Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 11:54:46PM +0100): > On Gwe, 2003-07-18 at 23:08, Svein Ove Aas wrote: > > My suggestion is this: As the hardware is obviously broken, and disabling > > DMA would cause a horrendous performance drop anyway, you should get a new > > chipset. Return the one you have as broken. > > Update to 2.4.20. That will put IDE disks into MWDMA2 on the Serverworks > OSB4 and avoid the mistrigger with CD-ROM errors. The later serverworks > (CSB5, CSB6) is fine btw but can hit the CD-ROM mistrigger too I just did. Happiness is a machine that reboots remotely. Emboldened by my success, I started a backup. Works like a charm, too. I hope my luck holds up! How sweet it is. Thanks to all who responded. -- _________________________________________ Nachman Yaakov Ziskind, EA, LLM awacs@egps.com Attorney and Counselor-at-Law http://yankel.com Economic Group Pension Services http://egps.com Actuaries and Employee Benefit Consultants