On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 08:50, Mark Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 18:32, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 12:21, Todd Lyons wrote: > > <snip> > > As I've been following this problem and in one and only one case do I > > have this problem I've noticed that it seems to be hardware specific. > > I've got 4 boxes running 9.0 without problems of this sort. 2 with > > samsung CD's one with a mitsumi slimline and One with an Asus CDRW. > > But, on my laptop with the compaq cdrom... it happens. What I'm > > wondering is if it is hardware related specifically to older or specific > > brands of cd drives? Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree... > > > > Yes I have found this to be true as well, this works for me, as I am > running crap hardware.. First I pass ide=nodma using lilo and the > append line, then when booting up I use hdparm just to switch DMA on > just for the hard drive "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda" and this seems to work > quiet well.. > > I have tried other tricks through LILO like ide1=nodma but this not > work, and the fault remained.. only through totally switching off the > IDE DMA and switching back on for the hard seems to work me...
Is it not possible to turn DMA off with hdparm? > Has anyone else tried anything like this? I'll give it a try and see if it makes a difference. I too don't want to go through the hassle of manually mounting stuff, after all supermount is meant to be a differentiating feature right? I can supply my drive info if any supermount hackers want to work with me to find a better cure. According to the thread http://www.mail-archive.com/expert@;linux-mandrake.com/msg59783.html there is not much point reporting it to lkml. -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is my personal opinion and probably not the opinion or policy of my employer
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