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SubjectRe: bkbits.net is down
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.
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