Re: Installation Failing Sun V100

[Dieter.Jurzitza@t-online.de (Dieter Jurzitza)]

Hi guys,
this is an issue I rose around October timeframe with my U60, this is what 
SuSE does and this is what makes total sense (to me):
start with ide=nodma as default setting, check what your system can cope with 
and activate dma later. I have seen severe filesystem corruption due the 
malconfiguration regarding dma.
I honestly do not understand why people do (debian sarge does) it the other 
way round. A stable system should be the primary target, after that the dma 
configuration may easily be adjusted.
The debian installer could come with some tests that check for the proper dma 
configuration interactively.
Take care



Dieter Jurzitza
Am Mittwoch, 5. Januar 2005 22:21 schrieb Stefan van der Eijk:
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> AFAIK the DMA on the IDE chipset used on the V100 doesn't work as it
> should. I've found that the machine starts behaving weird once the disk
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