Re: Corrupted Hard Drive after activating intel I/oat dma
El Jueves, 27 de Diciembre de 2007, Marek Kierdelewicz escribió: > Hi Gustavo, > > >By mistake we activate intel I/oat dma support on a laptop with a > >centrino duo to try to get better performance on IO. > > I/OAT is for accelerating network operations on newer Xeon processors > and E1000 nics. Some information about it is available here: > http://lwn.net/Articles/165131/ > > There's no way that enabling this option could cause your hdd to fry. Thanks to all for the information. I know, that I'm not having the hardware, but some Intel mother boards sucks some times. > >know the option was not supported, but I want to know if cause that we > >can have a fried hd :(. > >thanks in advance if someone has something to said about the > >failure. :( > >Kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r7 > > I'm a [EMAIL PROTECTED] user myself. This distro is very disk-demanding > because of the frequent compilations. In my opinion it's not the best > distro for a mobile system. No wonder your disk gave out :(. Well, look, I use to build the system, then my customers and friends use a clone of that, so ..., they never compile anything, you should not think like that. > Cheers, > Marek Kierdelewicz > KoBa ISP > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Gustavo Guillermo Pérez Compunauta uLinux www.compunauta.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Corrupted Hard Drive after activating intel I/oat dma
El Jueves, 27 de Diciembre de 2007, Marek Kierdelewicz escribió: Hi Gustavo, By mistake we activate intel I/oat dma support on a laptop with a centrino duo to try to get better performance on IO. I/OAT is for accelerating network operations on newer Xeon processors and E1000 nics. Some information about it is available here: http://lwn.net/Articles/165131/ There's no way that enabling this option could cause your hdd to fry. Thanks to all for the information. I know, that I'm not having the hardware, but some Intel mother boards sucks some times. know the option was not supported, but I want to know if cause that we can have a fried hd :(. thanks in advance if someone has something to said about the failure. :( Kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r7 I'm a [EMAIL PROTECTED] user myself. This distro is very disk-demanding because of the frequent compilations. In my opinion it's not the best distro for a mobile system. No wonder your disk gave out :(. Well, look, I use to build the system, then my customers and friends use a clone of that, so ..., they never compile anything, you should not think like that. Cheers, Marek Kierdelewicz KoBa ISP -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Gustavo Guillermo Pérez Compunauta uLinux www.compunauta.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: IDE disk and HPA
El Jueves, 4 de Agosto de 2005 07:11, Etienne Lorrain escribió: > > > > My question is now: why is an HPA disabled i.e. disprotected when > > > > detected? Why not let the HPA alone, because a certain set of disk > > > > sectors shall not be accessible by the OS? > > > > > > Because the HPA is most commonly used to hide all but a fraction of a > > > disk to work with older BIOSes. > > > > But as to my knowledge, the HPA was had been introduced to allow HW > > vendors to store things like diagnostic programs in a part of the > > disk protected from partitioning and filesystems. > > The point is, IF there is an HPA, there MIGHT be a partitioning > > scheme and some filesystems on the disk which rely on the size of > > disk being the native size MINUS the HPA. > > If those HW vendors want to store software in the HPA of the IDE > hard disk, and they employ people able to read the IDE specifications, > they know that this HPA can be protected by password and so Linux > just display a failure when trying to restore the capacity of the > Hard Disk - because it lacks the unlocking password. If I want to upgrade my IDE Hard drive by my self, how can I restore that kind of data on other diferent PC? HPA should not exist, there are a lot of other ways to store restore or diagnostics apps, Hibernation and Quick Restores should be handled in other way, I have once an omnibook (earth unplugged) and I can only reinstall Linux, because the host protected area does not allow me to install The Original OS, in other PC with the porper hardware and back it to the laptop. This HPA should be optional, but never by default, I once need to have them disabled (where is the specifications from the manufacturer to reproduce them in a new hard disk media). :| -- Gustavo Guillermo Pérez Compunauta uLinux www.compunauta.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: IDE disk and HPA
El Jueves, 4 de Agosto de 2005 07:11, Etienne Lorrain escribió: My question is now: why is an HPA disabled i.e. disprotected when detected? Why not let the HPA alone, because a certain set of disk sectors shall not be accessible by the OS? Because the HPA is most commonly used to hide all but a fraction of a disk to work with older BIOSes. But as to my knowledge, the HPA was had been introduced to allow HW vendors to store things like diagnostic programs in a part of the disk protected from partitioning and filesystems. The point is, IF there is an HPA, there MIGHT be a partitioning scheme and some filesystems on the disk which rely on the size of disk being the native size MINUS the HPA. If those HW vendors want to store software in the HPA of the IDE hard disk, and they employ people able to read the IDE specifications, they know that this HPA can be protected by password and so Linux just display a failure when trying to restore the capacity of the Hard Disk - because it lacks the unlocking password. If I want to upgrade my IDE Hard drive by my self, how can I restore that kind of data on other diferent PC? HPA should not exist, there are a lot of other ways to store restore or diagnostics apps, Hibernation and Quick Restores should be handled in other way, I have once an omnibook (earth unplugged) and I can only reinstall Linux, because the host protected area does not allow me to install The Original OS, in other PC with the porper hardware and back it to the laptop. This HPA should be optional, but never by default, I once need to have them disabled (where is the specifications from the manufacturer to reproduce them in a new hard disk media). :| -- Gustavo Guillermo Pérez Compunauta uLinux www.compunauta.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [2.6 patch] remove support for gcc < 3.2
El Domingo, 31 de Julio de 2005 17:26, escribió: > This patch removes support for gcc < 3.2 . > [1] support removed: 2.95, 2.96, 3.0, 3.1 Please keep the 2.95 support I use to use a lot, on not new hardware. If you have old hardware with not much resources gcc 2.95 works just fine and fast, even you build the main kernel on other machine, by compatibility issues one or two drivers should be builded a lot of times into the older hardware, then we are forced to build gcc 3.4 or something like. :( -- Gustavo Guillermo Pérez Compunauta uLinux www.compunauta.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [2.6 patch] remove support for gcc 3.2
El Domingo, 31 de Julio de 2005 17:26, escribió: This patch removes support for gcc 3.2 . [1] support removed: 2.95, 2.96, 3.0, 3.1 Please keep the 2.95 support I use to use a lot, on not new hardware. If you have old hardware with not much resources gcc 2.95 works just fine and fast, even you build the main kernel on other machine, by compatibility issues one or two drivers should be builded a lot of times into the older hardware, then we are forced to build gcc 3.4 or something like. :( -- Gustavo Guillermo Pérez Compunauta uLinux www.compunauta.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
PAGE_BUG macro
Hello list, I have old code, and updating I see PAGE_BUG was gone, is fine to diable with a macro to allow build on old kernels?. I see on old post PAGE_BUG and friends seems to be exterminated #ifdef PAGE_BUG #endif :| -- Gustavo Guillermo Pérez Compunauta uLinux www.compunauta.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
PAGE_BUG macro
Hello list, I have old code, and updating I see PAGE_BUG was gone, is fine to diable with a macro to allow build on old kernels?. I see on old post PAGE_BUG and friends seems to be exterminated #ifdef PAGE_BUG #endif :| -- Gustavo Guillermo Pérez Compunauta uLinux www.compunauta.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[OT] SCSI Printer on AIC78XX without SCSI Terminator
Hello, I was tried to use a SCSI Printer, onto a AIC78XX (old and new driver), when driver load, it recognise the Scanner, the Printer and Panel, but may be the copier doesn't have an internal terminator, and driver hangs forever discovering unexistent 4th device. I do not wish to dissasemble the copier to solder the terminator, and I never deal with SCSI HW. Kernel I was tried: 2.6.7, 2.4.23. but I think the driver does not change from 2.6.7 to 2.6.12. I see the doc about this driver but I can't figure out wich of a lot options can help to not try to discover more than 3 devices... I'll have a chance to play with this machine the next week, then I'm taking ideas. aic7xxx=seltime:2 this option wait for answer but the device 4º waits forever... aic7xxx=no_reset I don't aic7xxx=override_term mm The new driver support cmdline args? If someone can share comment I would appreciate it cheers -- Gustavo Guillermo Pérez Compunauta uLinux www.compunauta.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[OT] SCSI Printer on AIC78XX without SCSI Terminator
Hello, I was tried to use a SCSI Printer, onto a AIC78XX (old and new driver), when driver load, it recognise the Scanner, the Printer and Panel, but may be the copier doesn't have an internal terminator, and driver hangs forever discovering unexistent 4th device. I do not wish to dissasemble the copier to solder the terminator, and I never deal with SCSI HW. Kernel I was tried: 2.6.7, 2.4.23. but I think the driver does not change from 2.6.7 to 2.6.12. I see the doc about this driver but I can't figure out wich of a lot options can help to not try to discover more than 3 devices... I'll have a chance to play with this machine the next week, then I'm taking ideas. aic7xxx=seltime:2 this option wait for answer but the device 4º waits forever... aic7xxx=no_reset I don't aic7xxx=override_term mm The new driver support cmdline args? If someone can share comment I would appreciate it cheers -- Gustavo Guillermo Pérez Compunauta uLinux www.compunauta.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
