Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Gavin Seddon <gavin.m.seddon@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] dma?
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:20:00
Message-Id: 1152609249.5737.1.camel@linuxstation.homenetwork
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] dma? by Gavin Seddon
1 I have found the dma module with lspci. Will still advise me on the
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7 On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 10:02 +0100, Gavin Seddon wrote:
8 > Hi,
9 > I am using Reiser on a couple of my partitions. When booting it informs
10 > me the 'dma is turned off, this is slowing down fs checking. Also,
11 > occasionall I am instructed to ctrl D for a reboot. Is this normal for
12 > reiser? And, how do I turn dma on? A similar situation occurred with
13 > all ext3 filesystems then afte about 1 yr the root partition developed
14 > significant errors and wouldn't boot. So I put reiser on it. What do
15 > you think's up? It appears to me to be a broken hdd?
16 > Gavin.
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18 > Dr Gavin Seddon
19 > Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
20 > University of Manchester
21 > Oxford Road
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23 > UK
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29 Dr Gavin Seddon
30 Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
31 University of Manchester
32 Oxford Road
33 M13 9PL
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