I never saw an answer for this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2002/debian-powerpc-200203/msg00202.html
---- On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 00:01, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 20:57, David N. Welton wrote: > > > > My tibook becomes almost unusable interactively when there is a lot of > > disk activity (dselect unpackaging things, anacron running the find > > job). What's up with this?! > > First of all, check with hdparm that your HD is set up reasonably. It > should at least be using DMA and unmasking IRQs. I see that unmasking IRQs is disabled on my machine (I'm using the default settings, so only DMA it seems). Is unmasking IRQs dangerous at any time ? Is it dangerous when having 2 devices on the same IDE channel (both CD-Rom and HD are on the first channel on this machine) ? And if it's not dangerous at any time, why isn't it enabled by default ? ;) "We need some IDE experts here" ;) Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net ---- Thanks, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
