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From: Gustavo Guillermo =?iso-8859-1?q?P=E9rez?= <madgus@gmail.com>
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To: Marek Kierdelewicz <marek@piasta.pl>
Subject: Re: Corrupted Hard Drive after activating intel I/oat dma
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:57:04 -0600
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El Jueves, 27 de Diciembre de 2007, Marek Kierdelewicz escribi?:
> Hi Gustavo,
>
> >By mistake we activate intel I/oat dma support on a laptop with a
> >centrino duo to try to get better performance on IO.
>
> I/OAT is for accelerating network operations on newer Xeon processors
> and E1000 nics. Some information about it is available here:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/165131/
>
> There's no way that enabling this option could cause your hdd to fry.
Thanks to all for the information.
I know, that I'm not having the hardware, but some Intel mother boards sucks 
some times.

> >know the option was not supported, but I want to know if cause that we
> >can have a fried hd :(.
> >thanks in advance if someone has something to said about the
> >failure. :(
> >Kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r7
>
> I'm a gentoo@laptop user myself. This distro is very disk-demanding
> because of the frequent compilations. In my opinion it's not the best
> distro for a mobile system. No wonder your disk gave out :(.
Well, look, I use to build the system, then my customers and friends use a 
clone of that, so ..., they never compile anything, you should not think like 
that.

> Cheers,
> Marek Kierdelewicz
> KoBa ISP
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