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David S. Miller wrote:

> I'm suspecting rather IDE transfer corruption under load.
> A good datapoint would be if the IDE disk is using DMA or
> PIO mode, and if DMA to retry the emerge with DMA disabled.
> Also, there are other funky IDE feature optimization settings
> that might now be safe on those Ultra5/10 CMD64x IDE chips.
> 
> I seem to remember Gentoo turned on all the fancy IDE features
> via hdparm on bootup on sparc64 boxes, correct me if I'm wrong.

hdparm is never called on startup by default, be it either the LiveCD or
a new installation unless the users adds it to the startup.
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI is Y on the LiveCD kernel, but
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO isn't so it shouldn't fire up unless the user
wants so via hdparm.

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Gustavo Zacarias
Gentoo/SPARC monkey
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