On 04/07/2001 21:55:53, Alexandru Barloiu Nicolae wrote:
> I am trying to use the DMA on the ide drives. After the reboot Dma is
> enabled but if I don't disable it with hdparm the system freezes at heavy
> work (copy something from a drive to the other). The SCSI works ok.
Without
> the DMA the system barely moves
>
> <SNIP>
>
> Any ideas what's wrong?
Which kernel version are you using? The OSB4 ide driver prior to version
2.4.2-ac27 causes problems on SMP servers. You may want to try a more
recent kernel or remove the OSB4-specific driver and use the standard
IDE/ATA driver instead.
Regards,
John Cagle
Principal Member Technical Staff
ProLiant Servers, Compaq