Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263632AbTGGIfN (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:35:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263945AbTGGIfN (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:35:13 -0400 Received: from louise.pinerecords.com ([213.168.176.16]:3255 "EHLO louise.pinerecords.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263632AbTGGIfI (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:35:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 10:49:36 +0200 From: Tomas Szepe To: Alan Cox Cc: Andre Hedrick , Vojtech Pavlik , Ryan Mack , Markus Plail , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.4.21 ServerWorks DMA Bugs Message-ID: <20030707084936.GF303@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <20030706184242.A20851@ucw.cz> <20030707034217.GD303@louise.pinerecords.com> <1057560151.2413.1.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1057560151.2413.1.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1010 Lines: 26 > [alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk] > > On Llu, 2003-07-07 at 04:42, Tomas Szepe wrote: > > > Just the view from an insider in the know. > > > > Hmm, I certainly wouldn't expect a $3500 server to come with busted > > IDE, but thanks for the suggestion, we'll take extra care. > > You might also want to check with HPaq about BIOS updates. I have > seen a couple of boxes which didnt set DMA but meant to or did > after BIOS update. Too late now, the machine is collecting IP accounting statistics for 20 C's, 24/7. Flashing the BIOS seems too risky given we're only using the IDE drives for nightly backups of a SCSI raid1 root fs. I guess I'll just write a simple script to see if the backup data tends to get hosed. Thanks! -- Tomas Szepe - 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/