On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 10:27, Animesh Singh wrote: > Morning Chirag, > > What excatly is hda ? ( HDD / CDROM ). >
Try disabling DMA through hdparm >From the hdparm man page. -d Disable/enable the "using_dma" flag for this drive. This option now works with most combina-tions of drives and PCI interfaces which support DMA and which are known to the IDE driver.It is also a good idea to use the appropriate -X option in combination with -d1 to ensure that the drive itself is programmed for the correct DMA mode, although most BIOSs should do this for you at boot time. Using DMA nearly always gives the best performance, with fast I/O throughput and low CPU usage. But there are at least a few configurations of chipsets and drives for which DMA does not make much of a difference, or may even slow things down (on really messed up hardware!). Your mileage may vary. This will slow things down but you won't receive further errors whether its a HDD/CD-ROM drive. Cheers, Animesh Animesh Bansriyar it is :) -- Animesh Bansriyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://neolinuxsolutions.com, +91-651-3112497. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
