Erik van Konijnenburg wrote:
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:52:34AM +0100, Cesare Leonardi wrote: Step by step:
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** Comment out any work-arounds (MODULE ide-generic) you may have made in /etc/yaird/Default.cfg This is an important bit: you would not want to report success with the patch if actually your edit in Default.cfg is what makes the system boot.
Never touched /etc/yaird/Default.cfg.
** reboot into new kernel; report success; undo if you don't like the effect.
Your patch seems to have resolved the problem: now i'm writing with the smp kernel (i like your trick of using smp kernel for testing purposes) and dmesg report no errors regarding disk/filesystem. Since i have read other posts regarding problem with DMA (that seems caused by some hand-made configuration), i have also tested that in my system it is regularly enabled:
# hdparm -d /dev/hda /dev/hda: using_dma = 1 (on) # Thank you very much Erik. Cesare.