using the hdparm tool i've turned off udma on both hda and hdb. I'll wait to see if it happens again.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Stockton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 1:49 PM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] not sure what to call it > Oh now this is an interesting idea, and HDB does happen to be a Maxtor drive > on the older side. For as long as I've had this box HDB has been used as > the linux partition used in a dual boot situation. Now that i've got the > laptop I put the system on HDA and on HDB I've got one large partition that > is mounted as /home > > I just ran a quick fdisk on hdb to see what it says and it gave me an > interesting read out: > > Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 875 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdb1 * 1 876 7034296+ 83 Linux > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: > phys=(875, 186, 63) should be (875, 254, 63) > > I'm wondering what that exactly means... > > I looked for the /etc/sysconfig/harddisks but didn't find it. Any other > places I should look for DMA settings? Possibly a jumper on the back? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Samuel Merritt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 12:59 PM > Subject: Re: [vox-tech] not sure what to call it > > I had a similar problem once; it turned out to be my cheap Maxtor hard > drive that claimed to support DMA, but would hang every now and then. > The symptoms were that the system seemed to be running okay, but any > process that needed to use the disk for any reason (including being > swapped in) would hang. CTRL+ALT+DEL wouldn't work because it would try to > load /sbin/shutdown from disk, and hang. Also, the disk activity LED on > the front of my case was on solid when this happened. > > If the symptoms persist, try disabling DMA on your hard disk(s) and see if > the crashes end. Mandrake uses /etc/sysconfig/harddisks for IDE disk > parameters. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
