Subject: Re: Changes in siimage driver?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Arve Knudsen <aknuds-1@broadpark.no>
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On Mer, 2003-09-17 at 17:26, Arve Knudsen wrote:
> X66 etc.) with hdparm, I get ~50MB/S. It's not an ideal solution since now 
> and then I get a bunch of "disabling irq #18" messages after running 
> hdparm (I think, its part of the startup scripts), and I have to restart.

That is a bug in the 2.6.0 core still. Just hack out the code which does
the IRQ disable on too many apparently unidentified interrupts.

> directories. Am I the only one who's run into any sort of issues with the 
> updated driver? From what I can see it hasn't been modified in the last 
> revision (test5-bk4), hopefully noone is losing important data because of 
> this (fortunately I had some recent backups). Anyway, I'd like some 
> feedback on this from those in the know (the performance drop should be 
> fairly easy to verify, unless hdparm is playing tricks on me).

Don't keep important data only on 2.6-test boxes. Its 'test' - it
shouldnt eat anything but...

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