Re: Trouble with hdparm -d on Dell D610

["Kristin Vadas Marsicano" <kristin.marsicano@gmail.com>]

Thank you.  I took the CD-Rom out, so that's why it didn't show.  Very
observant!

My concern with disabling the new drivers is as follows: I use this
linux kernel and config image to boot machines over PXE and call a
shred program on each of the harddrives.  If I turn off CONFIG_ATA,
will this limit my ability to support various new IDE and SATA drives
for running shred?  So far, the configuration I have works well with
most of the machines I encounter  (and with both SATA and IDE drives),
except for the Dell D610 and HP 7700 (small desktop pc).  The models I
just mentioned run the shred really slow, which I believe is due to
the DMA problem I was having (outlined in my previous emails).  Any
thoughts?


On 1/11/08, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Thanks. You do indeed have both the old IDE and new IDE drivers trying to
> drive bits of the system. I don't see the CD-ROM in the dmesg at all
> however ?
>
> If you turn off CONFIG_ATA you should get just old IDE drivers and your
> disk back working sanely.
>
> Alan
>


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Kristin Vadas Marsicano
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