Re: Extremely annoying ext3
On -993-Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:39:33AM -0500, Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net> spake thus,
> "Mark" == Mark C <lists@funkypenguin.net> writes:
>
> Mark> This is wrong, being an ex redhat user (well to long) before
> Mark> I slipped into the Debian camp, redhat do NOT use dma on
> Mark> either hard drive or cdrom, this has to be turned on
> Mark> manually as well (Just on redhat very slightly easier than
> Mark> debian):
>
> Thanks for updating me on this. I'm almost certain there used to be a
> time when Redhat would automatically enable DMA, but I have not used
> Redhat in about 5 years now....
>
> Cheers!
> Shyamal
I'm not so sure about any of this... I do run RedHat on my router
machine and have done so since before I knew much about Linux at all.
I installed it blindly using the "server" package selection and didn't
really set anything up myself. As you see below, it looks to me like
UDMA is enabled just fine. I have also never had any IO problems on
this RedHat box, although I can never be sure if it's a RedHat/Debian
problem or a Dell/Homebrew problem ;-)
root@hobbes:~# dmesg | grep ^hd | grep sector
hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2434/255/63,
UDMA(33)
I haven't had a chance to go verify the DMA settings on my Debian file
server box yet, but I'll definitely post something when I find out how
its DMA is doing.
Also I want to thank everyone for their input so far. Like I said, I
haven't had a chance to really experiment with these suggestions yet
but I'm becoming optimistic about the situation. I don't think I'll
switch to ReiserFS due to its lack of repair tools (thanks to Alfredo
for this info).
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