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On Sunday 30 November 2003 04:15, Paulo da Silva wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> Both on my desktop and my laptop I had a problem with |
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> hdparm. The system seemed to hang when starting hdparm. |
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> Because I didn't know how to debug startup (rc) scripts, I |
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> decided to replace the original /etc/init.d/hdparm with a simple |
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> hdparm script to act only on my disks. On the desktop the problem |
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> went a way and everything works pretty fine. |
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> On the laptop a problem occurs from time to time. I can't tell when |
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> and under which circunstancies that happens but the symptoms are |
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> always the same. |
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> After the message "starting hdparm ..." the computer stops (hangs). |
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> After beeing off for some moments (+-15s), the disk activity led blinks |
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> one time, then it turns on and stays there forever. Only a power off |
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> unlocks the system. After rebooting the file /etc/modules.conf is |
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> always corrupted. "modules-update force" resolve the problem. |
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> Any ideas about what can be causing this? |
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You shoul post this to forums.gentoo.org or to the ml gentoo-user. |
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As an answer, I would say : select "USE DMA BY DEFAULT" in your kernel |
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config. |
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Philippe |
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