On Friday 13 June 2003 09:15 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Friday 13 June 2003 07:51 pm, Lorne wrote:
> > I wonder if it is a bad hard drive, and or controller. No errors during
> > install? For it to die like that it just seems/smells hardware based. Are
> > you running hdparm and doing anything to soup up to UDMA or anything?
> > What about when you install. regular or expert install? Do you click the
> > option on hard drives that activates LBA or UDMA or something. I'm sorry
> > I can't remember what that option is.
>
> Er, forgot to say that hdparm is installed and gives this:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]# hdparm /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
>  multcount    = 16 (on)
>  IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
>  unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
>  using_dma    =  1 (on)
>  keepsettings =  0 (off)
>  readonly     =  0 (off)
>  readahead    =  8 (on)
>  geometry     = 78167/64/32, sectors = 160086528, start = 0
>
> I do install as expert, don't even remember that option under v9.1 download
> edition though - everything was pretty automagical. :-)

I just went back and tried expert and it isn't like i remember the older 
versions either. ? 

hdparm -d /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
 using_dma    =  0 (off)

Will give info on if you are using DMA, I believe someone asked if you had DMA 
on. 

hdparm -i /dev/hda
This should give you all the info on your hd.




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