[Bulk] [CentOS] hda dma seek errors
BRUCE STANLEY
bruce.stanley at prodigy.net
Wed Aug 3 19:39:58 UTC 2005
--- "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
> BRUCE STANLEY <bruce.stanley at prodigy.net> wrote:
> > Hi Manuel!
> > My IDE set up is as follows:
> > IDE channel 0 --- IBM 40GB UDMA 100 7200 RPM drive 2MB
> buffer
> > --- Segate 120GM UDMA 100 7000 RPM drive 8MB
> buffer
> > IDE channel 1 --- TDK CD-ROM drive 24X
> > --- TDK CD-RW drive 16x burn, 48x read
> > Both controller cables are UDMA 100 compatible.
>
> Ew, old-style PIO master/slave used for ATA DMA (not
> recommended).
>
> Furthermore, you're using your newer devices as slaves, so
> they are stuck with the ATA support of their masters.
>
> Lastly, you're using different vendors for the disks -- IBM
> (and WD drives, who OEM'd IBM drives at that time) had
> numerous issues with the ATA logic Intel ICH and ViA 82xx
> southbridges.
>
>
>
> --
> Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail
Hi Bryan!
I should also mentions that the drives are installed in removabl
drive bays so that I can swap then out with other drives without
messing with the cables.
Thus, I can put in different master boot drives for different
operating systems.
I have seen very little problems of the nature discribed with FC2,
Mandrake 8.1, or Suse 8.2.
I have not seen any problems when using Windows 2000 pro.
Is this problem occuring more with newer versions of the Red Hat
base kernals? It could still be a hardware problem of some sort
with the system.
When I get home tonight I'll open up the box and re-seat the
cables just to be sure that they are ok.
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