What about the -X34 DMA optimizations?
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> Shalrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > It only happens with big files between two ide hard drives at maximum
> > > throughput and blah blah blah read the report
> >
> > Whew, guess my pr0n^W files are safe for now!
> >
> > ive got a 30gb and a 75gb IBM deskstar both on the primary IDE with a
> > plextor 16/10/40 on the secondary channel. I did notice that ripping from
> > the cdrom incurred a HUGE slowdown on my system (makes an athlon feel like
> > a 486 with 8 copies of netscape running). I figured that this could be
> > overhead from ide-scsi emulation. Or it might be related to what I just
> > read about.
> >
> > Anyways.. whats this bug have to do with the recent Via + reiserfs woes I
> > have been hearing about?
> >
> > Are the recent kernels 'safe' to use, even with hdparm optimizations?
>
> no with hdparm optimizations with last kernel rpm i have disabled the
> 66 optimisations for via chipset to workaround the corruption problems...
>
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