Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Sep 1998 22:32:59 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: DMA questions |
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On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Alamais wrote: [SNIPPED] > on this drive, and it seems to work okay in both Linux and Win95, > but I'm still nervous (all those 'MASSIVE FILE CORRUPTION' warnings > in the hdparm man page :P ). > > -kernel: hdd: CD-ROM CDU311, ATAPI CDROM drive > > Can't CD-ROM drives do DMA too? > > (Apologies if any of this has been asked before, > or if this is the wrong place to ask) > > Thanks, > -- Run your system with your fingers crossed for at least an hour. Try to do things that read and write files.
Then reboot with init=/bin/bash. Once you get the `#` prompt, do:
/sbin/fsck -f /
If you do not have lots of fs corruption reported, count yourself lucky and proceed.
If everything is okay. do the same thing on other file-systems (look in /etc/fstab to see their names).
If everything still looks okay, do:
exec /sbin/init and the system will start up normally (yes, init will still be pid 1).
Cheers, Dick Johnson ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** Penguin : Linux version 2.1.118 on an i586 machine (66.15 BogoMips). Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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