From: Nachman Yaakov Ziskind <awacs@egps.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Svein Ove Aas <svein.ove@aas.no>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: DVD-RAM crashing system
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 19:13:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030718191355.C25384@egps.egps.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1058568886.19512.111.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>
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.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-18 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-18 20:06 DVD-RAM crashing system Nachman Yaakov Ziskind
2003-07-18 22:08 ` Svein Ove Aas
2003-07-18 22:54 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-18 23:13 ` Nachman Yaakov Ziskind [this message]
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