Re: IDE drivers
On Fri, 03 Jun 2005, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Friday 03 June 2005 04:49, maximilian attems <debian@sternwelten.at> wrote:
> > > > > The Fedora kernel binary packages have IDE compiled into the kernel,
> > > > > presumably to work around this problem.
> > > > >
> > > > > I guess that this indicates a bug in the kernel.org source. But
> > > > > while we wait for that to be fixed I think that compiling the drivers
> > > > > into the kernel would be the right thing to do.
> > > >
> > > > the sarge kernel is frozen.
> > >
> > > Frozen at <10% disk IO performance for many machines...
> >
> > i don't agree.
>
> What do you disagree about? Do you believe that the Debian kernels will
> support DMA on all IDE devices? Do you believe that without DMA good
> performance will be delivered?
on some machines where i hadn't dma by default.
hdparm easily enabled it. and these were only few boxes.
> > but your waving is definetly a bit late in that release game...
>
> I posted to the list as soon as I noticed the problem.
>
> As the Debian kernels are apparently going to remain unusable for me I won't
> be testing them much in future. So the next time there's a bug of this
> nature you shouldn't be expecting any advance notice from me.
you may want try the 2.6.11 from unstable there the ide patch got
reworked. anyway you are free to use what'ever fits you.
--
maks
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