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From: glenn <glenn.burns@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] ultra 5/gentoo xorg-x11 questions
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:16:25
Message-Id: 56e8f5670511231415x1d17aef2p223ec1717d0ee4c1@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-sparc] ultra 5/gentoo xorg-x11 questions by Gustavo Zacarias
1 ok folks...
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3
4 hdparm -v /dev/hda1
5
6 /dev/hda1:
7 multcount = 16 (on)
8 IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
9 unmaskirq = 0 (off)
10 using_dma = 1 (on)
11 keepsettings = 0 (off)
12 readonly = 0 (off)
13 readahead = 8 (on)
14 geometry = 16708/16/63, sectors = 767950848, start = 0
15
16 if i need to change the parameters, please let me know
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18
19 -=g=-
20 On 11/23/05, Gustavo Zacarias <gustavoz@g.o> wrote:
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25 > David S. Miller wrote:
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27 > > I'm suspecting rather IDE transfer corruption under load.
28 > > A good datapoint would be if the IDE disk is using DMA or
29 > > PIO mode, and if DMA to retry the emerge with DMA disabled.
30 > > Also, there are other funky IDE feature optimization settings
31 > > that might now be safe on those Ultra5/10 CMD64x IDE chips.
32 > >
33 > > I seem to remember Gentoo turned on all the fancy IDE features
34 > > via hdparm on bootup on sparc64 boxes, correct me if I'm wrong.
35 >
36 > hdparm is never called on startup by default, be it either the LiveCD or
37 > a new installation unless the users adds it to the startup.
38 > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI is Y on the LiveCD kernel, but
39 > CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO isn't so it shouldn't fire up unless the user
40 > wants so via hdparm.
41 >
42 > - --
43 > Gustavo Zacarias
44 > Gentoo/SPARC monkey
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