These are IDE drives that we're using now.  I had a problem booting from 
SATA on this MB for some reason.  Still the same VIA problem?  We're 
inconsistently getting  channel breakup for calls into the queue, especially 
when the extension number is announced.  I was thinking that a disk access 
bottleneck might cause that. I could also increase the size of the packet 
buffers. What do you think?  We're not large scale either and we're not live 
yet.  I'm just doing some test calls into the queue.

Peter M.


On 8 Feb 2007 at 16:25, Paul Wouters wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Peter MacFarlane wrote:
> 
> > I tried setting the DMA "ON" with the -d but this was refused.  DMA stayed
> > off.  The main message was:
> >
> > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted!
> >
> > That's why I'm thinking that the VIA chipset is incompatible.
> 
> The SATA drivers with VIA are problematic. You are probably better of
> using an old PATA drive.
> 
> > Is DMA normally ever stuck OFF?  Doesn't this create a bottleneck in terms 
> > of
> > processing speed?
> 
> I don't think asterisk needs the disk that much for it to be a problem, but
> I'm not running a large scale enterprise asterisk either.
> 
> Paul

Asterisk Telephony User and Installer.

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