Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:12:37 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.0pre4 hangs while fsck'ing at boot time |
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On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 10:03:47AM +0100, BertJan Bakker wrote: > I indeed have a VIA chipset on my motherboard (Apollo VPX). > I've made a new kernel and it works fine but I don't have DMA now: > > | | DMA enabled | DMA disabled | > | VIA support on | hangs | OK | > | VIA support off | hangs | OK | > > The hanging seems non-deterministic, it usually > happens after a few hours except for the time it did > when fsck'ing at boot time. It is always doing something > with the disks though.
Same with me, though I have the VP2/97 chipset. I found `hdparm -X34 -d1' lets me use DMA without any hangs. Speed is markedly improved with it.
Not UDMA though (even though the chipset claims to support it).
-- Jamie
> BTW. Can someone point me to a good manual about the kernel module > system particularly about the conf.modules file? I read the man > page and it explains the syntax and all but I still don't understand > what in a line like "alias iso9660 isofs" determines the name iso9660. > Who is asking for iso9660 and where can I find all the things it > could ask for?
`man modprobe' is a start. It explains the syntax, at least.
-- Jamie
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