Re: DMA blues...System lockup on setting DMA mode using hdparam

2001-02-24 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:48:29PM -0800, Jasmeet Sidhu wrote: > Also, when I try and use the -k and the -K switches (keep settings after > reset), the programs says that it worked. However, after I restart the > system, these "flags" are set to 0 again. Is this normal? In other words: > hd

Re: DMA blues...System lockup on setting DMA mode using hdparam

2001-02-23 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Jasmeet Sidhu wrote: > Also another question related to IDE: > Is there anyway we can see how good/bad the system performance is while > the system is working? that information (what the disk subsytem as a whole is doing) is collected in /proc/stat something like xosvi

DMA blues...System lockup on setting DMA mode using hdparam

2001-02-23 Thread Jasmeet Sidhu
Hey guys, I have five Promise ATA100 controllers configured using kernel version 2.4.2-ac1 (using pdc202xx drivers of course) on ASUS A7V with a AMD Tbird 1GHz processor. Now for the most part this kernel is very stable. I have premium cables connected to the hard drives and all drives in th