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From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>,
	Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>, Ryan Mack <lists@mackman.net>,
	Markus Plail <linux-kernel@gitteundmarkus.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.21 ServerWorks DMA Bugs
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 10:49:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030707084936.GF303@louise.pinerecords.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1057560151.2413.1.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>

> [alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk]
> 
> On Llu, 2003-07-07 at 04:42, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > > Just the view from an insider in the know.
> > 
> > Hmm, I certainly wouldn't expect a $3500 server to come with busted
> > IDE, but thanks for the suggestion, we'll take extra care.
> 
> You might also want to check with HPaq about BIOS updates. I have
> seen a couple of boxes which didnt set DMA but meant to or did
> after BIOS update.

Too late now, the machine is collecting IP accounting statistics
for 20 C's, 24/7.  Flashing the BIOS seems too risky given we're
only using the IDE drives for nightly backups of a SCSI raid1 root
fs.  I guess I'll just write a simple script to see if the backup
data tends to get hosed.

Thanks!
-- 
Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-07  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-05  6:45 2.4.21 ServerWorks DMA Bugs Ryan Mack
2003-07-05  6:49 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-05  7:21 ` Markus Plail
2003-07-05 16:58   ` Ryan Mack
2003-07-05 17:07     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-06  7:40     ` Alan Cox
2003-07-06  9:06       ` Tomas Szepe
2003-07-06  9:10         ` Alan Cox
2003-07-06 11:10           ` Tomas Szepe
2003-07-06 11:38             ` Alan Cox
2003-07-06 16:42               ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-07-06 17:49                 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-07  0:42                 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-07  3:42                   ` Tomas Szepe
2003-07-07  6:42                     ` Alan Cox
2003-07-07  8:49                       ` Tomas Szepe [this message]
2003-07-07  8:13                     ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-07  8:17                     ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-07  8:45                       ` Tomas Szepe

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