Frederik Schueler wrote:
Hi, On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 12:00:07PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:We have tons of reports for broken CDs in the BTS, and I noticed that unlike the commercial distibution vendors we don't have CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK set ibn our install kernels. I'd rather play safe and slow in this case.I suggest setting this only on the generic installer kernels, so users can install the system and activate DMA for their drives later when installing the optimized kernel.
I would prefer installing hdparm, with a default config file that turns on appropriate options for /dev/hda which surely is not a CD drive, and with comments describing how to set options for other drives.
It should be run at boot time with a script in /etc/init.d, but not run by default.
Ensuring the installer knows what to do by sending email to root is a sound final touch.
As a user who installs his own software, find there are many things I should know to do but don't and that extends to software that is really useful and that is often not installed, but I think should be. In this category I include
hdparm smartmontools lmsensorsThe first two are essential for anyone who has disk drives, the third can warn you you're cooking your computer.
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