On Monday, 13 December 1999 at 9:03:16 +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Will the backdown to PIO mode be permanent till the next reboot of the
>> machine, or will the driver be able to attempt to return to DMA mode after
>> a timeout period. I'm only seeing these errors under really heavy disk
>> activity (mutlitple nfs readers and writers plus rsync/mirror jobs to the
>> vinum volume in question).
>
> The fallback is permanent, but it only occurs after 3 retries on the
> failed request. If it fails 3 times in a row, there is something
> really wrong on that channel, ie bad cableing etc etc...
Wouldn't it be possible to find some way to manually reenable DMA?
Having to reboot seems rather hard.
Greg
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