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"Dave Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> } > And are you using ide-scsi emulation?
> }
> } Absolutely. On both my home and office systems, although the office
> } system gets all the various stuff going including setiathome at nice
> } -19, while the burner at home is a file server and backup server, two
> } tapes, two CD burners, a 4x SCSI and the 8x IDE.
>
> It might be worth checking the IDE configuration, and making sure that
> IDE busmaster transfers are enabled on the host controller. There was
> a policy change a while ago (in the 2.2 kernel tree, I believe) -
> previously, IDE busmastering would be enabled by default, while more
> recently it requires some amount of effort at kernel-config or boot
> time to enable it. The reason, I gather, was that some IDE controllers
> and devices report that they do busmastering, but do not do so
> reliably, and this led to crashes and data corruption on disk.
Good point there, I do have busmastering enabled on both system which
work reliably. In addition, I also have the writer and data on separate
IDE busses (cables). In fact, each burner is on a cable with is unshared
with any active device.
That may account for my lack of problems and the original poster's
plethora of them.
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-bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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