On 990906, at 21:57:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, David Ellement wrote:
> > Anyway, the system has a BCM motherboard with Intel 440ZX chipset
> > and Intel PCI IDE controller chip, a Quantm disk, and an ActionTec
> > PCI modem (supposedly with a FIFO). Given this hardware, does it
> > still make sense to alter the disk parameters to solve my receive
> > packet framing errors?
>
> I don't think with that setup you are likely to damage your data, so if
> you can't fix the framing errors any other way it's worth a try to use
> hdparn.
>
> If it is using multiple sector IO, turning that off won't damage
> anything and might help, but I think using DMA or interrupt-unmask
> should fix it.
I've tried interrupt-unmask and turning off multiple sector IO, that
doesn't help. It's not clear how I can use DMA: if I turn it on, it
seems to turn itself off. I did try '-d1 -X34': that is a mistake on
this hardware; the system hung, and a few files did get corrupted.
Assuming I do find a set of parameters that help, how do I get them set
when the system boots?
Here's a few more pieces of information:
setting 'mru 296' in /etc/ppp/options doesn't help
setting the modem control flow using 'AT\Q3' doesn't help
After I close the ppp session, if I query the modem (ATI11), it doesn't
list any receive packet errors.
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David Ellement
