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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: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:36:44
Message-Id: 56e8f5670511291235k25cda439s12c2ce18a6eababf@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-sparc] ultra 5/gentoo xorg-x11 questions by glenn
1 ok gang:
2
3 i was able to "emerge -ep gcc" with out any issues...
4
5 i'm attempting to emerge xorg-x11 once again to see if it makes a
6 difference.
7
8 thanks again for all the comments.
9
10 -=g=-
11
12 On 11/23/05, glenn <glenn.burns@×××××.com> wrote:
13 >
14 > ok folks...
15 >
16 >
17 > hdparm -v /dev/hda1
18 >
19 > /dev/hda1:
20 > multcount = 16 (on)
21 > IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
22 > unmaskirq = 0 (off)
23 > using_dma = 1 (on)
24 > keepsettings = 0 (off)
25 > readonly = 0 (off)
26 > readahead = 8 (on)
27 > geometry = 16708/16/63, sectors = 767950848, start = 0
28 >
29 > if i need to change the parameters, please let me know
30 >
31 >
32 > -=g=-
33 > On 11/23/05, Gustavo Zacarias <gustavoz@g.o> wrote:
34 > >
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38 > > David S. Miller wrote:
39 > >
40 > > > I'm suspecting rather IDE transfer corruption under load.
41 > > > A good datapoint would be if the IDE disk is using DMA or
42 > > > PIO mode, and if DMA to retry the emerge with DMA disabled.
43 > > > Also, there are other funky IDE feature optimization settings
44 > > > that might now be safe on those Ultra5/10 CMD64x IDE chips.
45 > > >
46 > > > I seem to remember Gentoo turned on all the fancy IDE features
47 > > > via hdparm on bootup on sparc64 boxes, correct me if I'm wrong.
48 > >
49 > > hdparm is never called on startup by default, be it either the LiveCD or
50 > > a new installation unless the users adds it to the startup.
51 > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI is Y on the LiveCD kernel, but
52 > > CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO isn't so it shouldn't fire up unless the user
53 > > wants so via hdparm.
54 > >
55 > > - --
56 > > Gustavo Zacarias
57 > > Gentoo/SPARC monkey
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