Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:25:59 -0700 | From | Jonathan Lundell <> | Subject | Re: bkbits.net is down |
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At 2:21pm -0700 6/26/03, Larry McVoy wrote: > > Eek. Serverworks IDE. I don't think they ever got that bit of their >> chipset right. > >Hmm. I could shove in a promise card and put at least the repos on that, >would that be better?
We routinely disable DMA for ServerWorks+IDE systems. Fortunately our application doesn't care about disk performance. The symptom is that a word or so of data gets inserted into a sector (or dropped; I disremember right now).
A Promise card might be a good idea, though someone else will have to vouch for it. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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