Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264023AbTFZWLx (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2003 18:11:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264025AbTFZWLx (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2003 18:11:53 -0400 Received: from intranet.resilience.com ([12.36.124.2]:20403 "EHLO intranet.resilience.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264023AbTFZWLu (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2003 18:11:50 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20030626212102.GA19056@work.bitmover.com> References: <20030621135812.GE14404@work.bitmover.com> <20030621190944.GA13396@work.bitmover.com> <20030622002614.GA16225@work.bitmover.com> <20030623053713.GA6715@work.bitmover.com> <20030625013302.GB2525@work.bitmover.com> <20030626231752.E5633@ucw.cz> <20030626212102.GA19056@work.bitmover.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:25:59 -0700 To: Larry McVoy , Vojtech Pavlik From: Jonathan Lundell Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down Cc: Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 820 Lines: 21 At 2:21pm -0700 6/26/03, Larry McVoy wrote: > > Eek. Serverworks IDE. I don't think they ever got that bit of their >> chipset right. > >Hmm. I could shove in a promise card and put at least the repos on that, >would that be better? We routinely disable DMA for ServerWorks+IDE systems. Fortunately our application doesn't care about disk performance. The symptom is that a word or so of data gets inserted into a sector (or dropped; I disremember right now). A Promise card might be a good idea, though someone else will have to vouch for it. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/