Re: hdparm
I demand that Martijn van Oosterhout may or may not have written...
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:47:22AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 04:11:17PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
>>> I demand that Simon Hrlimann may or may not have top-posted...
>>>> - what are the default params? very safe, [...] or should hdparm act as
>>>> a speed enhancer, meaning setting dma, io_32bit...?
>>> ... but having it default to being a speed enhancer is a *bad* idea
>>> unless tests can be run during startup to determine whether things such
>>> as 32bit I/O will work.
>> If you read bug report, that was concern and that was the reason why I
>> proposed silly placeholder file. What ever way we impliment, default
>> shall be "off" unless someone write very smart auto detector.
> I seem to remember that any options set this way are not sticky and will be
> reset if the kernel ever has to reset the controller. So the real question
> is, how many systems:
> - Can't handle setting the 32-bit flag or some other flag
If messages like "hda: lost interrupt" are anything to go by, then my
Deskpro XL 6150's on-board IDE interface can't handle it.
> - *and* the kernel can't recover by resetting the controller
Presumably it would have tried a controller reset after a while, but when I
tried this (new HD), I didn't wait to find out :-)
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- From: Simon Hürlimann <huerlisi@student.ethz.ch>
- Re: hdparm
- From: Darren Salt <list@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>
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- Re: hdparm
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