From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kristin Vadas Marsicano" Subject: Re: Trouble with hdparm -d on Dell D610 Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:27:31 -0500 Message-ID: <7f68de3e0801111327m1363b681ree81fbc5f7f43848@mail.gmail.com> References: <7f68de3e0801111118x3fecace5n5c1f10b90b595d2f@mail.gmail.com> <20080111193036.787a9fdc@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <7f68de3e0801111149x15afd429sf48ed7db5fff8fa1@mail.gmail.com> <20080111195521.7e771e45@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <7f68de3e0801111227x50c9ff31n1435d005e6b6b1f3@mail.gmail.com> <20080111210557.390271a0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.182]:64421 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759691AbYAKV1d (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:27:33 -0500 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so1983518wah.23 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:27:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20080111210557.390271a0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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 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 > -- Kristin Vadas Marsicano kristin.marsicano@gmail.com kristinisme.blogspot.com