Re: Crashes and HDD params

2006-06-23 Thread knitti
On 6/23/06, Tobias Ulmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like this is an older box (no dmesg, so it's just a guess). I have a board ('96) that doesn't do any dma, but accepts to be set to pio 4, dma 2. This results in several crashes per day, corrupt data on ro filesystems and so on. Changing wd

Re: Crashes and HDD params

2006-06-23 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 12:50:15PM +0200, knitti wrote: On 6/23/06, Tobias Ulmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like this is an older box (no dmesg, so it's just a guess). I have a board ('96) that doesn't do any dma, but accepts to be set to pio 4, dma 2. This results in several crashes per

Re: Crashes and HDD params

2006-06-22 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 10:40:56PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: Przemys3aw Pawe3czyk wrote: Hi, How to change HDD parameters like this: wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: FUJITSU MPD3084AT wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 8063MB, 16514064 sectors wd1(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2

Crashes and HDD params

2006-06-21 Thread Przemysław Pawełczyk
Hi, How to change HDD parameters like this: wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: FUJITSU MPD3084AT wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 8063MB, 16514064 sectors wd1(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 to get rid off the crashes I register several times a day? With very bad results on my files.

Re: Crashes and HDD params

2006-06-21 Thread Nick Holland
Przemys3aw Pawe3czyk wrote: Hi, How to change HDD parameters like this: wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: FUJITSU MPD3084AT wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 8063MB, 16514064 sectors wd1(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 to get rid off the crashes I register several times a day? With