Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2003 19:13:55 -0400 | From | Nachman Yaakov Ziskind <> | Subject | Re: DVD-RAM crashing system |
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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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