Re: Corrupted Hard Drive after activating intel I/oat dma

2008-01-07 Thread Gustavo Guillermo Pérez
El Jueves, 27 de Diciembre de 2007, Marek Kierdelewicz escribió: > Hi Gustavo, > > >By mistake we activate intel I/oat dma support on a laptop with a > >centrino duo to try to get better performance on IO. > > I/OAT is for accelerating network operations on newer Xeon processors > and E1000 nics. S

Re: Corrupted Hard Drive after activating intel I/oat dma

2007-12-28 Thread Shannon Nelson
On Dec 27, 2007 5:49 PM, Gustavo Guillermo Pérez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By mistake we activate intel I/oat dma support on a laptop with a centrino duo > to try to get better performance on IO. > > The wd1200bevs Western Digital Scorpio 120GB HD fails with bad sectors and > power down (randoml

Re: Corrupted Hard Drive after activating intel I/oat dma

2007-12-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:21:44 +0530, Shourya Sarcar said: > Marek Kierdelewicz wrote: > > > > > I'm a [EMAIL PROTECTED] user myself. This distro is very disk-demanding > > because of the frequent compilations. In my opinion it's not the best > > distro for a mobile system. No wonder your disk gave

Re: Corrupted Hard Drive after activating intel I/oat dma

2007-12-28 Thread Shourya Sarcar
Marek Kierdelewicz wrote: I'm a [EMAIL PROTECTED] user myself. This distro is very disk-demanding because of the frequent compilations. In my opinion it's not the best distro for a mobile system. No wonder your disk gave out :(. Can you substantiate "distro is very disk-demanding because of t

Re: Corrupted Hard Drive after activating intel I/oat dma

2007-12-27 Thread Marek Kierdelewicz
Hi Gustavo, >By mistake we activate intel I/oat dma support on a laptop with a >centrino duo to try to get better performance on IO. I/OAT is for accelerating network operations on newer Xeon processors and E1000 nics. Some information about it is available here: http://lwn.net/Articles/165131/