Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Han Boetes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Chris Cappuccio wrote: > > > You have both IDE disks on the same IDE channel which is > > > problematic. Set both IDE disks to 'master' and put them on > > > separate IDE channels. > > > > Cheers, what a difference! > > > > Not a bug, eey? > > Not a software bug, anyways...As Art pointed out, the hardware > does not appear to be responding properly. It is never a > recommended practice to put multiple devices on a single IDE > channel, as IDE has no method of dealing with bus contention > (like select/release in SCSI). I only do it when one disk is > low-usage (second disk with just MP3s on it, or whatever) and > the other channel is already in use.
Yes I am aware that it is recommended to put HDs on a different ide channel. I just forgot about it and I never had any problems with it until about some 3.9 snapshot started misbehaving. And it never improved even though I found some cvs log messages that promised to fix the `syncing disks...' bug. And the behaviour was erratic so I never sure when it started, what started it and when it may have been fixed. So it's the typical situation where one problem is triggered by a change pretending it's another problem. Which made it very hard for me to figure out since it didn't seem to make sense. Anyway, my request: I'd like it if the kernel would behave more gracefully incase of a setup where more than one HD is on the same IDE channel. # Han
